Coming in due course will be the following cities:
Boston.
Chicago.
Houston.
Los Angeles.
New York.
New Orleans.
San Francisco.
Santa Barbara.
San Diego.
Seattle.
Washington D.C.
And places:
The Grand Canyon.
Lousiana Bayou.
Niagara Falls.
The Rocky Mountains.
Yellowstone National Park.
Yosemite National Park.
Overall
Impressions
Vermont is a very green State, and a very picturesque one. Indeed it gets its name in part from its overriding greenness, for the state was named by the Frenchman Samuel de Champlain. Vermont effectively means Green Mountain when translated from the French Mont Vert. And the state is certainly mountainous, with Mount Mansfield being the tallest at 4393 feet. (As a comparison Ben Nevis in Scotland is 4409 feet). (Samuel de Champlain incidentally also gave his name to Lake Champlain which separates the States of New York and Vermont for the whole of the length of this lake.
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge.
Covered Bridges in America first came to my attention as a result of reading the "The Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller, a book which affected me quite profoundly. But the actual covered bridges of Madison County are in the State of Iowa, so it came as a nice surprise to discover that wooden covered bridges are quite a common American feature.The one pictured below, which I photographed on 31st July, 2002, is in fact reputedly the longest two span covered bridge in the world. It is only partly in Vermont however as it spans the Connecticut River, which forms the boundary here between the States of Vermont and New Hampshire. The bridge is about 450 long at road level,
(nobody seems too sure of its exact length, perhaps they don't know how to use a surveying tape?!) with the portals overhanging by a further 8 feet at one end and 6 feet at the other. The bridge forms a link between the settlements of Windsor in Vermont and Cornish in New Hampshire. Built in 1866 to replace three previous ones, it was itself closed in 1987, reconstructed, and re-opened in 1989.
Arizona.
Arkansas.
California.
Colorado.
Florida.
Illinois.
Louisiana.
Maine.
Michigan.
New York.
Ohio;
Texas.
Utah.
Vermont.
West Virginia.
Wyoming.
and
Hawaii!
(one of the most amazing places that I have visited so far)
