Thursday, June 16, 2011

another good day

the line-up for today:

  • tour of north america's largest granite quarry
  • hike to paine mtn.
  • dinner with will and tawnya in randolph

the tour at the Rock of Ages quarry was pretty awesome.  the scale is impressive; they're the quarry who created a 12-foot tall statue of Pope JPII.  They slab it off in 200-ton blocks.  80% of their granite is for gravesite memorials/masoleums, but they also make surface plates for industry.  we got to hear (but not see because it was too far below us) a blast during the tour.


after eating lunch at a diner/movie-rental store (vermont cheddar burger with handcut fries), i decided out check out a nearby hike in the hiking guidebook i picked up in montpelier earlier this week.  i got lost.  or, more accurately, i lost the trail, and i'm still not sure exactly where.  but i think there is another road i'd like to explore there, so i might take the bike back with me another day.  i'll just have to be careful not to run over any frogs:


while i was out wandering, i heard back from tawnya, who is out in vermont for will's dad's wedding.  twenty miles from northfield.  so, they invited me for dinner and strawberry-rhubarb crisp and really, how could i say no?

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