Last year we took our first major trip with my in-laws. We’re usually at the ranch but a couple of times a year they come down here and stay in a hotel and we go to a show or something. But this was nine days on the road.

I got to drive this trip through some of my old stomping grounds. This is Autumn in Vermont, perhaps someone like Frank Sinatra has sung of the trees here. Above is a picturesque old mill.

Second is me looking at the exact same work bench my grandfather made, probably from the same plans although his vises were different, and which still sits in my aunt’s garage.

Last is Jim’s father Joe opening a lock on the historic Erie Canal. This was a trip about water that even included Niagara Falls.

Other highlights may follow. Dee