We're on the road

Before I jump into our happenings for the past few days, I want to thank everyone who made it out to our going away festivities in Orland on Saturday.  We had way too much food and had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends before we set out Sunday morning.  We even had a chance to show off our matching tie dyes from a craft day earlier this summer with Missy:

After breakfast with Curtis's family Sunday morning, we filled up our water jug and headed out for our big adventure.  We took our time getting to North Conway and made it just in time to fix our first meal in our fancy oven next to Echo Lake. 

Mac & Cheese with mushrooms

Echo Lake overlooking Monday's climb on Whitehorse

On Monday, we did a short little hike into Diana's Bath

 then climbed The Standard Route on Whitehorse ledge, 

Quick shot from the lunch ledge

View of Whitehorse from the parking area

and we walked around North Conway before driving over to Franconia Notch to spend the night.

North Conway downtown (for Janny)

Let's see, yesterday's challenges began with a windy, rainy, cold morning and a stove that wouldn't stay lit.  The bigger challenge: finding a place to get an oil change where we didn't have to take the bikes off the cap.  New Hampshire was a little too wet and cold for climbing Cannon and Rumney as we'd hoped, so we moved on and would our way through Vermont and got that oil change finally near Burlington.  So here we are.  We camped out at Mt. Philo State Park (a beautiful spot) and are thinking about a vineyard tour, a Burlington walkabout, and then catching the ferry over to New York and the Adirondacks tonight.  More to come later.

View from the top of Mount Philo last night (Lake Champlain on the right)