We washed and dried our sheets and took showers before heading out this morning. Since it is raining today we thought it would be a good day for inside activities. The first item on the agenda was to go back to the Cabot Creamery and take the tour. We ate more cheese. This was the second time to take a cheese factory tour -- we visited Tillamook in Oregon a few years ago.
On the way to take more tours we saw two more covered bridges. Although most bridges are for public use to cross rivers, the Martin Bridge was for private use by a farmer to get his cattle across a river. It has a gate inside the bridge to keep his cattle in his field. It was built in 1890.
The next stop was at the Bragg Farm Sugarhouse where maple syrup is made. They told us about the cooking process and we watched a short movie. They had an awesome soft serve maple flavored ice cream that we ate. We purchased some maple syrup for some of mom’s friends in the nursing home.
The next stop was the Green Mountain Coffee factory. They don’t have tours but they have a visitor center. The visitor center was flooded, as was most of main street in Waterbury (what an ironic name, given the flood). Green Mountain had set up another location for visitors. We saw pictures of the town that showed the flooding after hurricane Irene. There was still a lot of clean up going on in town. I had a pumpkin spice coffee with real cream and maple syrup added. Jim got a regular coffee.
We were going to stop at the Alchemist Brewery but it was on Main Street and had a sign in the window – “We Will Return”. On the way a couple of miles down the road to the next stop we happened to see Alchemist Cannery. They only make one beer here -- a double IPA. The flooded brewery/restaurant made about seven. We stopped and tried the IPA and talked with one of their brewers. It was next door to the last stop in town we were planning to go to -- Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory. We didn’t take a tour since we already toured Blue Bell in Brenham and knew how ice cream was made and packaged. But we did get a couple of cups of ice cream. They have some flavors only served at the factory and not sold in stores so those are the ones we bought.
Jim wanted to stop at three more breweries on the way back to the Casita. We only got one beer and shared them at each place. We had eaten so much junk we usually don’t eat. One of the breweries was especially neat. It was the Brewery at the Trapp Family Lodge. The same von Trapps from the movie “The Sound of Music”. The lodge is run by the youngest son of Baron von Trapp and his son. The Trapp family built the lodge in 1941 in Stowe, Vermont, after coming to the U.S. After being cloudy or rainy all day, it cleared up at 6:30.
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