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by Dick and Barbara O’Brien, Tour Coordinators and reporters
Super “A” Tourists: Bill and Irene Allen, Dick Berry, Gene and Joyce Bunce, Doug and Nan Linden, Bruce Marshall, Ed and Pat Quirk, Bob and Janice Wright, Dick and Barbara O’Brien.
Eight very road worthy Model A Fords and 14 Minuteman people headed towards Manchester Center, VT for the first leg of our 11th Annual “Super Tour.” We traveled through rain most of the 150 mile trip but once we pulled into the Olympia Motel in Manchester Center the sun was shining bright!! Most of us relaxed and had cocktails at the pool and then it was on to the Sirloin Saloon where we all enjoyed a great dinner even though we could hear the heavy rain and thunder while we ate.
Next morning it was a 130 mile trip up to Lake Placid which took us over some very scenic roads with a few small showers but mostly bright sun. We enjoyed the ferry across Lake Champlain to Fort Ticonderoga where most of us took time for pictures and enjoyed the scenery. At Lake Placid we stayed at Art Devlin's Olympic Inn. Once again it was time to relax and enjoy cocktails on the deck while viewing the beautiful mountains all around us. Then most of us headed up the road to a recommended Pizza place which had slow service but great food.
Wednesday took us to the Olympic Village where we watched some freestyle ski jumping demonstrations. Special skis on “velvet grass” was the summer snow. Then it was on to the high jumps where we took a lift to the top of the mountain (what a view) and then up the tower by a glass tube elevator which was 28 stories high. This was a great Kodak moment ( or Hewlett-Packard nano-second for the digital camera fans) if you could stop shaking on the wooden platform for a minute! After turning down an offer to try the ski jump, some of us headed for Saranac Lake for lunch by the water and then some antique shopping to enjoy. Back at the Inn it was refreshment on the deck with Bruce Marshall as Mixologist and Cocktail Shaker.
Later we headed for The Fireside Steakhouse and while we all enjoyed our dinners the sound of heavy rain and thunder could be heard.
Day 4, Wednesday we were on the road again to Morrisville, Vt. Only 110 miles which gave us time for some great antique and gift shop perusing in Essex, N.Y. This is also where we ate lunch at a waterfront restaurant and boarded the ferry that took us back into Vermont. We followed some great back roads, again with nice scenery and great weather. In Waterbury we enjoyed one of many ice cream stops...this one at Vermont’s own Ben & Jerry’s. By the end of the day we had moved on to the Sunrise Motel in Morrisville, a place we have stayed at for the past three years.
Day 5, Thursday it was off to the Stowe Flea Market; great weather, but a little warm. Evening cooled off and we relaxed by the pool and then headed to dinner at “Whiskers” with a lot of other Minuteman people. They had arrived in Stowe for the annual car show. Ice Cream at an unique ice cream shop downtown capped off the evening.
Day 6, Friday was pretty much everyone on their own; some went to the flea market and the parade, and several of us headed off to the antique shops which are best described as large barns stocked with interesting junk. Heading back to the motel we ventured through Smugglers Notch which proved to be quite a challenge for as we drove down the steep, narrow, mountain road the sky opened up and visibility was zero! At the bottom of the mountain the sun returned. We all attended the Jacobson's motor home that night for a pizza party.
Day 7, Saturday we headed home down scenic Route 100. On and off rain but time to shop at the Vermont Country Store. On Route 12, north of Keene NH we experienced monsoon like rains. A moose on the side of the road seemed to enjoy the rain. Soon we hit a Route 12 washout and detoured onto Route 68, not much better as stones and mud washed across the road. A few miles east of Keene the rain stopped, the sun came out, we dried out and the rest of the trip was the usual ice cream stop and home. We had a lot of fun with a great group of people!
NOTE: From the oil leak, October 2003, pages 9 and 10; Jim True
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