From New York to Vermont to Maine

We finished up our visit to the finger lakes area, Cayuga Lake to be exact. We spent a half a day on the Cayuga Wine Trail that has 16 wineries on it. Most wineries offer eight tastings so after six wineries we were ready for a nap. I have to say we tasted some really good wines!
We headed to a friend of ours from Asheville who is currently living in Woodstock, Vermont. He recently got married and this was one of her homes. We had a bit of an open invitation to come and stay but had been unable to get a hold of them to let them know we were on our way.So we just show up and our friend ,Will, has gone to Asheville. We introduce ouselves to Lynn, whom we have never met, and needless to say this could have been extremely awkward. But it wasn't!! She got us settled in and was a fabulous hostess. She called Will and he headed back to Vermont (which is about a 17 hour drive). In the meantime we did a variety of things with Lynn that included eating, going to a Scottish Festival, shopping, gardening and just relaxing. Lynn owns two beautiful Andulusion horses, big, beautiful, pure white horses. They were beautiful all by themselves but then she gave us a Dresage exhibition, and the two of them(Lynn and the horse)were absolutely breathtaking. That same day a friend of hers from the scottish festival had joined us. When Lynn finished riding, this gentleman played the bagpipes for us for about an hour. Here we were in the Green Mountains of Vermont enjoying ourselves in a way we could scarcely have imagined.
That night Rob and I noticed the night sky, it was void of all interference from city lights and no moon. It was extraordinary.
Will arrived two days after our arrival and the four of us spent some quality time together. Some times the best laid plans, are no plans at all. Lynn and Will, thank-you, thank-you.

A little side-bar here. My God is it expensive to live in Vermont!! I went to the grocery store and these people are getting raped!

After our 4 day visit we headed to Maine. We are stayng on a lake right outside of Augusta, the capital city. This is aproximately 40 miles from the coast. It's even hot up here. It's been about 92 degrees every day. Last night we cooked two large live lobsters for dinner, and oh my God, they were to die for!!

Since hurricane Earl is breathing down our necks we are heading north east tommorrow morning. We will get some wind and rain but that's about it, hopefully.
We are going on to Patton, Maine and Rob hopes to do a little bear hunting.