Stowe, Saturday, July 26, 2025
We started the day with a ride on the recreation path, starting at the top, near Topnotch, riding down to the village, and back again. A cool ten miles.
The path was very busy, with tons of cyclists, runners, and walkers, which meant dismounting for all the bridges over the West Branch of the Little River, whose course the path follows.Although the top half is more w00ded, with lots of swimming holes, the bottom half, which starts once you cross to the eastern side of Mountain Road, is just as lovely as it passes through huge meadows as you approach the village.
We followed our ride with lunch at the Alchemist. In the summer months, you can accompany your Heady Topper with chow from the Warren Kitchen food truck = that specializes in Jamaican fare. My burger on a fried plantain “bun” was tasty!
Sue took advantage of the very nice pool at our condo, swimming further than I cared to think about…it was a ridiculously hot day for northern Vermont. The pool worked great as a plunge pool, though!
We had a great piece of remarkably fresh halibut for dinner, and topped it off with some soft serve from the Red Barn Ice Cream shop, continuing our Jamaican theme, since it is run by a Jamaican family.