After days of taking photos and photos on vacation, Day 5 was a bit of a comedown. Not for bad reasons, mind you. It was a day of packing up in Rhode Island and heading north, and that made for less time for at least some of the day to get photos in.
It was a brisk morning when we started but promised to get milder by the afternoon. A thick sweater on,
and I was ready to head out. Come lunchtime, we were at a fast food wraps place near Nashua, NH, and that made NH an official state visit in our books.
We continued on, stopping at one of the liquor outlet places that dot the state and that out-of-staters flock to to buy booze without tax.
That yielded a bottle of wine to bring to Amy and a gin to bring home. No chartreuse, alas. Darn it. Ah well. North and across the state we rolled, making it to Lebanon mid-afternoon.
On one side of the town center square we parked. A small New England Town. I kind of expected it to be like Stars Hollow, super quaint, but it wasn't quite so cozy. It was also not quite as into spring as Rhode Island to the south. But Amy worked at a lovely little Carnegie library
(one of two library branches for the town), and she gave us a tour inside
before sending Conrad, Ed, and me on to our hotel
to unwind and get ready for dinner.
A nice choice for dinner, too. Tuckerbox, a Turkish place, was her choice.
It was good to have some food a little more vegetable focused
(my eggplant was stuffed with lamb but not overwhelmed by it),
and the cocktail (a Garden Gimlet)
and wine were also good. Bonus points: we were in Vermont. Three states in one day, plus passing through a fourth (Massachusetts). The nice thing about the smallness of it all!
So there, a transition day on the trip, but with a library and some tasty food thrown in.
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