I love to travel but, like everyone else in the population I don't get the opportunity to do it very often.
And with money being what it is- extremely elusive, damn near a myth in my house- it doesn't make it any easier.
So, you can imagine my elation, no, my joy, at being offered the chance to take a one day trip to Vermont in October.
I had been so desperate to get out of my city of Montreal this year that by the time this trip came around I didn't know whether to jump the guy who made the offer or start packing that very second!
I had taken the trip with two other friends from one of my Meet Up photography groups. The idea came about as a solution to the constant run of not-so- interesting excursions our groups had been partaking in of late (the last one to Old Montreal was the best one since the Hot Air Balloon Festival a few years ago). I don't want to rag on the guys and gals who manage the groups and organize the outings, I have a lot of respect for them. It can't be easy to come up with new and original ideas for excursions and to try to make everyone happy every time.
But, that said, I do wish they would try harder. It would be nice if they could maybe come up with something a little more daring from time to time. Like their own trip to a neighboring province or state, perhaps.
The trip was wonderful! Taken in the fall, the whole way there we were treated to a bevy of cool tunes and great conversation. Not to mention the breath taking views outside our windows of trees bearing leaves that screamed to all the world that they were here and they weren't going anywhere. Landscapes that rolled all the way into the mountains only to lose their peaks amongst the clouds.
My friend and I were treated to a whole new view of Vermont neither of us had ever seen before. Even in a state where every road could be a back road, the back roads of Vermont, were very beautiful and extremely varied. You never knew where any one road would lead you. You could find yourself passing a Dairy Farm in the back of someone's house or you could even be passing a Hyrdo Plant in the middle of nowhere.
It looked and felt just the way I thought it would: like a place to come home to.
Considering how much I love to shoot landscapes Vermont was the perfect place for me to go. I felt right at home the second
I got there. I desperately hope to go back some day...
When I was there I shot a ton of images but even that wasn't enough for me. Of course, I felt that I could have shot even more. That is the key with me: I always want to shoot more.
Vermont is a very beautiful state. Of course we didn't go through the entire state but I suspect that no two sides to her were the same...
