Day 20 - Free Samples and the Long Ride Home

When we woke up it was still raining, but thankfully it began to taper off quickly. We packed up our still wet camper once again and headed off to our first stop of the day - Cabot Cheese. Anyone who's unfamiliar with the brand is missing out. If you have the opportunity to get a hold of some of their Vintage choice, do it! We hit up the sample table, bought enough cheese to fill up whatever space was left in our 60qt fridge, and took the tour. Photos don't really do it justice, so I'll omit them in exchange for the Cabot logo.

Stop number two - Ben & Jerry's. I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the trendiness that is Ben & Jerry's, nor do I really get into all the funky flavors. But I can respect where they come from, and I love ice cream, so why not. At least I got to find out why they killed one of the few funky flavors I liked, 'White Russian'.,

Further down the road we stopped at 'The Vermont Country Store'. Lindy had read about it somewhere and it sounded neat, so we made another touristy stop. This place is basically the Cracker Barrel general store on steroids, but we didn't really find anything that we could really get into, so we left empty handed.

Our plan for the night was originally find another campground and take our time going home on backroads. Unfortunately though, we were getting pretty tired of the dismal weather, and figured we'd instead shoot for Connecticut, with the hope of couch surfing with some friends. We finally were able to reach them on the phone mid afternoon, only to find out they were out of town for the evening. We faced two choices, random hotel, or drive home. Nevermind the fact that our day started at 7am and we were a long long way from Fredericksburg and running on minimal sleep with a ton of traffic on the highways between us and our destination, we said screw it, and decided that unless there come Hell or high water, we were making it home tonight. Several hours later, we pulled into the drive at 4am, and slept in our own beds.