{"id":1479,"date":"2015-06-14T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:47:45","slug":"sunday-june-14-buffalo-ny-to-rutland-vt-370-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/14\/sunday-june-14-buffalo-ny-to-rutland-vt-370-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, June 14 – Buffalo, NY, to Rutland, VT (370 miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had a fairly early start and checked out of our Econolodge around 8:00
\nafter the usual minimal continental breakfast in a teeny tiny lobby area.
\nWe drove all morning, with a lunch break at a Wendy’s at a Utica, NY, exit.
\nWe had beautiful sunny driving weather, but didn’t see much except the
\noccasional glimpse of the Erie Canal. Then we turned north toward Saratoga
\nSprings and went on to Rutland, VT. We have friends there, Rich and Monica
\nLloyd–a former Hastings College professor and his wife, who moved there
\nthree years ago when he signed on as president of a teeny college called the
\nCollege of St. Joseph. When we realized that Rutland wouldn’t be much out
\nof our way, we texted them to see whether they were home. They took the
\nwhole afternoon off for us and even had us stay overnight, so it was a great
\nvisit. Rich took us on a tour of the college (his offices and pretty much
\nall administration is in this enormous Victorian home that is also open for
\nfunctions and business meetings–very impressive. The campus is big and
\nlush and green for a teeny tiny college with only about 250 full-time
\nstudents–but as Rich pointed out, small is a positive in Vermont, and the
\ncollege is actually growing. They have big new scary plans for expansion by
\nadding a physician’s assistant masters program, and he showed us the
\nbuilding in the next town over that they plan to renovate for that
\npurpose–it is the former headquarters of a huge marble quarry operation
\nthat was given to them by a company that is leaving town, and it is made
\nentirely out of marble–as are some of the town’s public buildings and even
\nsidewalks. Wow. After the tour of the two “campuses,” we sat on Rich and
\nMonica’s back porch and had local white cheddar cheese, crackers, and apples\u00a0for dinner. We talked a lot of shop, of course, but Mark also showed Monica\u00a0travel pictures. And Mark and I explored their back yard–which was\u00a0actually several acres of lush, green forest to ramble around in. We even
\nsaw remnants of an old stone wall–looked like a border demarcation, but
\nRich and Monica weren’t quite sure what that was for. That was great, as
\nwas the whole visit. It had been our first day with some actual sun and
\nwith the humidity quite high, it was quite warm–as warm as it ever gets in
\nVermont, they said. We got to bed at about 10 pm–great day!<\/p>\n

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We had a fairly early start and checked out of our Econolodge around 8:00 after the usual minimal continental breakfast in a teeny tiny lobby area. We drove all morning, with a lunch break at a Wendy’s at a Utica, NY, exit. We had beautiful sunny driving weather, but didn’t see much except the occasional … Continue reading “Sunday, June 14 – Buffalo, NY, to Rutland, VT (370 miles)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadtrip2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}