Don't Forget to Pay the Ferry Man!

On Labor Day, we loaded up the RV and drove down the road about a mile to hop on the Port Kent-Burlington Ferry. We took the one-hour ferry ride on the M/V Valcour over to Burlington, Vermont. It was smooth as glass, sunny but breezy and cool.  Here are me and the kids waving to Tom after we pulled onto the deck of the boat.

If you look closely, you can see some of the Harley's that took the ferry with us.  There was a ton of motorcycle groups touring all over the area. I wanted to take a picture of them but I didn't have the nerve to ask them. Yes, they looked kinda scary.

I did get a chuckle listening to them talk outside the window of the RV. Here was a group of 15 or so really tough looking dudes on Harley motorcycles, drinking a beer (at 10 a.m.) and wearing leather jackets with skulls on the back, most had ponytails and a few had Mohawks. Guess where they were driving to?  The Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream factory just like us! LOL

Once we rolled off the ferry, we were dumped into the city of Burlington who just happened to be hosting a major bicycle race that day so many of the streets we needed to drive on were closed.  We almost had a repeat of what I'm now calling "The Cooperstown Fiasco" (see the Cooperstown, NY post for the details).  But between me and Betty (the GPS) we were able to find our way out of Burlington.

And for the record, if Tom had listened to me instead of Betty, we would have made it out sooner, but whatever. ;-)