Over the Gap in Late Summer

RogerKay
4 min readSep 28, 2021

We took a late summer mini-holiday up to Burlington, Vt., three days in that small city that sits on the eastern edge of the widest part of Lake Champlain. I drove up alone last year to test out sailing a rental Hobie Cat on that big expanse of fresh water, and this year my wife, Beth, accompanied me to see whether it might be a place where we’d like to spend more time.

Aside from strolling the outdoor pedestrian-only area with restaurants of all types, we came to bicycle the Champlain Bikeway, a mostly flat trail that runs on an old rail bed right along the lake — and for me to…

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