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Our Vacation is Almost Over and I Feel Old
What’s up with that?
We are on the last leg of our fall vacation. It’s been wonderful, hiking every day for 5–7 miles with rock scrambles and rewards of awesome vistas.
We left The Lodge at Moosehead Lake in Maine this morning after another breakfast of handmade blueberry pancakes by their in-house chef. I had made plans to stay tonight in Bennington, Vermont. We’ve been to Bennington before but it was a very long time ago — over 25 years. Sadly, Bennington Pottery is closed. It was a place we enjoyed visiting all those years ago. I still have and use mugs from there. The internet says that it is a temporary closure. I hope that’s true. In any case, we won’t be visiting tomorrow.
Tonight, we went to a chain restaurant for dinner. I’m not going to reveal which one it was but it is a large chain that specializes in Tex-Mex. I wasn’t that hungry so I ordered a cup of chili and a side of caesar salad.
Deciding what to order wasn’t the problem. The problem was that the restaurant was dark. It was so dimly lit that I had problems viewing the menu! The tables seemed wide so I felt far away from my husband. He was holding his menu up to catch light from the windows (across the room) in order to help him read the menu. There was loud music playing and people talking. I couldn’t hear what my…
