Montpelier Travel Blogs

It was only a short twenty minute drive to Montpelier. The afternoon was slipping away and we still wanted to tour Ben and Jerry’s today. I had forgotten what time they stopped giving the tours, so I called them. The recording said they closed at 7 PM, and the last tour was a half hour before. Th…

5:10am   Yeah, sleep is a funny thing here. My alarm isn’t supposed to go off until 6am, but here I am, up at 5 and have no desire to go back to bed. Honestly, I’m glad I’m going home tonight. I’ve been a little anxious about Smoky (my cat) for some odd reason – I don’t…

Montpelier, despite being the capital of Vermont, still had the appearance of a small Vermont town.  Great architecture all around.  Montpelier is known for retaining many of the chefs that trained at the nearby New England Culinary Institute.

It started innocently enough; I visited Juneau, Alaska in June 1993 and explored the State Capitol building. A few months later, It was Montgomery, Alabama's. In the course of time, it became a hobby. Near the end it became a bit of an obsession. Then, in August of 2006, I visited my 50th US State Capitol building in Pierre, SD. (Yeh!) Yes, I know, I'm a geography nerd.... All entries are maintained in on the 'first visit' date.

Moving with my gf across the continent, visiting family while and we are at it... why not extensively making stops along the road!

I ended the day driving to Montpelier Vermont. One thing you'll see along these two lane highways are piles of logs outside each of the houses. I'm sure this is one of those places that's immune to global warming in the winter, but after driving through the area in the summer, you can understa…