Day 3.229: Green Mountain Getaway (Getaway)

I spent the afternoon playing touch football (US variety), soccer and volleyball at the company picnic. As ever it was a lot of fun and I even managed to learn how to throw a football with intermittent success. Afterwards, I went to meet the rest of the family at Exile #4's piano lesson and we set off for a little road-trip.

It took us northeast over the border into Vermont then north, skirting the Green Mountains towards Manchester. In the end hunger overtook us before we reached there and we dived off the main road into Arlington, where this place caught our eye - I'm so glad it did because we had a really lovely meal there.  All five of us thoroughly enjoyed the food we chose and the ambiance was friendly and local without being unwelcoming to us foreigners (from New York you understand!)

Afterwards we turned east again to traverse the mountains on State Route 11 which despite taking a pass through the range, feels like a mountain climb and descent.  On the other side, we turned north again along the Vermont side of the New Hampshire border to tonight's destination in the wonderfully named White River Junction.

And to celebrate our arrival here (in New England - not the deep south!), it's pop pun 115 for title watchers: only way to please me...