This may be another quick post here as we are enjoying a day off and a resupply in Glover, VT (home of the Bread and Puppet festivals) with Uncle Bob Townsend (Brett's Uncle). The day of rest in Plattsburgh went well and we actually missed some very nasty weather on the lake that sadly claimed the life of a young canoeist celebrating his 21st birthday. The following day we took the ferry across from Plattsburgh to Grand Island and started paddling north up to the top of North Hero Island. We stayed at the North Hero State Park (mosquito headquarters of [View Full Entry]

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Jon and I decided to drive over to the Eastern Townships which are located around an hour and a half East of Montreal. The Eastern Townships are small villages which were originally home to a lot of American loyalists who fled the US after the American War of Independence and settled north of the border. Because of this some parts have remained quite English-speaking. We got to Knowlton on Lac Brome around 5pm (we watched England lose the 6 Nations before leaving Montreal and then got lost because Jon decided to get a map based on the postcode and not the [View Full Entry]

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