Visiting Vermont and New Hampshire ...

Still working on our list, we headed up north this weekend to Vermont and New Hampshire. We wanted to see some fall colors and also wanted to see if we could find the house where Dave's Aunt Eleanor lived.

We found both.

We got kind of a late start and were glad we brought the pups with us. We've felt bad leaving them home so much lately.

Dave had to do a little detective work in order to find his aunt's house ... all he had to go on was a post office box number and the memory of it being off Rt. 9 in Chesterfield. He remembered it was very close to Lake Spofford (or is it Spofford Lake?) He zoomed in on some online maps and found what he thought was the road where the house was located. Sure enough -- he was right!

We followed the directions provided by Google Maps to get to New Hampshire ... and while it was a pretty ride, it wasn't a very direct route. We went through a lot of little towns and made a few wrong turns due to some not-so-great directions. We finally decided to use the GPS and had much better luck finding our way.

After we found the Johndro's house, we went over to Spofford Lake. It was much colder than we expected and I think even the pups were happy to get back in the car!

No one swimming today! 

Perhaps this was a sailboating class ...

Another view of the lake ... the wind was kicking up!

This picture doesn't do the fall colors justice ... the leaves were so pretty.

Back in the car -- I think they were happy to be warm again!

Always have to see what's going on ... cute little pups!

We drove around Keene (New Hampshire) a bit and then headed over to Brattleboro (Vermont). I really liked the small town atmosphere of Brattleboro and wish we could have gotten out and walked around a bit. Lots of cute little shops. I think there was some sort of fall festival going on so there was definitely a lot of traffic. 

We did stop and grab a couple pictures off the bridge that separates Vermont and New Hampshire. 

The colors were so pretty ... it was like this everywhere we looked.

Not a great shot but this was the other side of the bridge ...

We had a great day and loved just driving around looking at the colors. We wish we could have taken more pictures because the scenery was just beautiful but we really would need a better camera with a wide-angle lens that could really capture the view. Even then I think it would be hard to due justice to the beauty of it all.

I'm guessing we'll make this an annual trek. We'd love to go further north and see more of the mountains. Maybe even do an overnight somewhere. New England sure had plenty to do and see!