Takeaways:

• Research for a trip is good, but last minute trips (because your friend realizes they don’t actually have to go home till one day later) can turn into an adventure all it’s own.
• Including ice cream in your trip is always a good idea.  Especially when you get free samples.
• Vermont has my favorite Senator and if that wasn’t enough to make me want to move there, the scenery is quite a bonus.

There are a few words that come to mind when I think of Vermont.  Trees, ice cream and Chelsea chasing cows – also Bernie Sanders and my love for him, but we don’t have to get into that now.  We drove from New Hampshire to Vermont (P.S. every time I type Vermont, instead I type Vermonth and I don’t know why, so please forgive me if it happens somewhere in this blog) through beautiful hills covered in deep green trees.
I completely understand why people tell me I need to go back in the fall, I think the changing of the leaves must be an incredible site to see.  We arrived at Ben and Jerry’s just in time for one of the last tours (phew!).  The tour itself gave off a little Charlie and the Chocolate Factory vibe because there are portions where you can’t film or take pictures and I loved every single second of their secretive nature.  However, the end of the tour is obviously the best because you get a free taste tester and learned there is someone out there who has the job of an ACTUAL taste tester.  I am not sure how I can apply for the job but it is one I might actually give up flight attendant-ing for.  You hear that B&J?  I’m ready for the change.  I have a big tolerance for dairy and I have strong opinions on ice cream.  There is more to do on the Ben and Jerry’s site so we wandered through.  It wasn’t a high travel time so we were pretty much alone as we

meandered through their facility.  We drove back on a happy sugar-high and wandered around towns stopping in Montpelier to look at the capital building and get a sense of the town.  It was absolutely beautiful.  We slowly made our way through Montpelier looking at cute houses and imagining our lives there, which we had been doing (and still do) in every town we had gone to since coming up with our genius business idea.  In my first draft I actually TOLD you what our

business venture is, but  that’s crazy and I am so glad I reread it today so I could take it out.  I trust you, but also I do not trust

you because it is the best idea ever and I wouldn’t even able to blame you for stealing the best idea ever.  Maybe we will open it in Vermont one day, maybe we won’t. You get no hints.