Picking up where I left off ,
Drive South to Rutland, by this time we were all feeling a bit hungry. Where to eat would be the question of the hour. Lucky for us Tom identified a lovely quaint eatery called the Rutland Restaurant , it was established in 1917 while it holds some charm it wasn’t hard to tell it was old. Mostly the smell and the dust, upon entering the proprietor of the establishment was even surprised they we walked in. He sat us at the cleanest dirty table in our own little section of the building. The owner tried to steer us toward just coffee but we didn’t take the hint. Pauline even suggested to Anita that we dash from here. Anita thinking Pauline was testing her held firm and wanted to stay for the meal. The meal was then ordered, I ordered the open face hot turkey dinner with fries, I wanted mashed but didn’t as I would have no idea when they would have been cooked or mashed. The remaining trio all ordered the minestrone soup believing it was safe! Well they were correct it was safe as it came straight from a can, the issue they had is the can would only fill two bowls but there was three ordered. Pauline and Anita had the bulk of the soup and poor Tom had a half a bowl of soup topped up with warm water. Now the turkey dinner certainly wasn’t the best BUT was very close to the worst I have ever had. The Rutland has been around since 1917 I think it has been due for a change …..at least 30 years ago. I know what you are thinking, something else to remember and you are right. We laughed about this a few times since we left. We made another decision upon leaving as well, it was not to let Tom choose the place to eat. In spite of the Rutland’s historical significance in this New England town it should be avoided unless of course you like can soup.
Our next stop for the evening was the Best western in Waterbury , the only real significance of this is after we arrive got the room and decided on supper we arranged the most expensive cab ride ever. There is limited UBER so a cab had to be arranged. We had asked the desk clerk to order a cab , he thought that it would take a while as these are limited in this area. 10 min later the cab was out front and we jumped in for the ride to our destination. We travelled to the Blue Stone pub it was 0.8 of a mile from the Hotel and cost $30 American dollars. To top it off the reason the cab took 10 min to arrive the driver was in the pool at the hotel we were staying at! I guess on the bright side he didn’t smell like cigarettes and beer it was just the chlorine that permeated the air as he drove us down over the hill in his velour black leisure suit. It was such a short distance we elected to walk back to the hotel. Anita has warned me not to post to much but while sitting on the plane to Goose Bay I figured I could throw a few things together about the Hiking trip. There were a couple of quotes that ring true that I have read recently, One is “ Travel will make you speechless then turn you into a story teller” I hope this one comes true! Until next time , That’s it for now I promise, You are now all up to date!
Well The Long trail is behind us now , at least for the time being. I do hope to complete it this year 2020 but life has a funny way of changing plans. I will post some of our travels and interests as we go along in life.
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