Sublime road trip down memory lane for you Nico! Lovely university campus! Thank you for sharing & bringing us along for the ride! Keep them coming! P.S. Wow! My University Professors never looked like that when I went to school! 👍🌈😅😉😄🏔☀️🇺🇸😎🌲🌿🚙💨💨💨💨💨💨💨🏕🏔🌲🌞
Lake Willoughby, the gem of the NEK, our old vacation spot. Does St. Johnsbury still have that little drive in restaurant with the Gulf Coast fantail shrimp and whole clams by the pint or half pint ?
I love that lake ! Worked on a dairy farm on north side of the lake when I was young in the 1970’s .. I feel that it’s the most beautiful spot on earth … god bless the good people of Westmore Vt.!
Thanks for the nice tour of the NEK. I'm choosing to highlight the beauty and the not so great parts of VT after moving from the South almost 18 years ago. If you love Lake Willoughby, which is very nice...enjoy! You'll get 3-4.5 mos of use out of it IN the water. Ice fishing hasn't been safe for 2 years for much of VT. Coming here to fish? Lake Champlain is awesome. Try it from the NY side....Plattsburgh, etc. They have an Aldi's, I hear! VT can be awesome after about 7 years of making connections to make friends. It's a very small TOWN in a huge state. Yeah, Bennington, we know who has an STI all the way up here in the NEK! (kinda kidding, but not far off) VT is great to visit, but right now we're in a housing crisis. If ya can't afford 1700 a month for a 500 sq ft (I'm being generous) PLUS all bills, including heating oil, electricity, cable, a stable internet hookup and wi-fi, water, sewer, recycling, 3-4 bucks per big black bag for trash, 150 a month to park in underground parking in the urban areas/apts., and plowing....and the 9% sales taxes if you get hot food to eat you didn't prepare....it's a cool place to be. Just bring your credit cards, stay awhile, max them out and discover a need to leave once ya thaw out next Spring. We were too broke by Spring to move anywhere else. Rofl....but I do love it here. I'm very odd, though, so I fit in. If you're weird, get lost. (easy to do....not much signal to the GPS system up here. Yes, in 2024. We still have a land line to get internet and phone calls, cuz reception in the NEK SUX!) Fave story about up here: Take 2 friends to eat on a nice, chilly Oct night in Montpelier. Sidewalks roll up here promptly at 8, doesn't matter when the sun sets. It was a Sunday night. No cell signal coming back, and the car died (as they do very often here because of the salt on the roads, which make them hella safe to drive on, but will eat your METAL CAR every other year beyond repair) Of course it started to snow. The friends we took waved someone down til they could get signal, then called a friend to get US, so we could get a tow truck at, now, 11 pm on Sun. Night. It ended up okay, but if we hadn't had Vermont natives in the car with deep ties to friends with a tow truck guy (who was recovering from heart surgery, bless him) who would actually get out of bed (bedtime in VT is 9pm or earlier if you're over 21 and work) and come get us all. Sound fun now? Enjoy Vermont for a visit!
Great video about the NEK. One mistake tho: when you were walking along St. J Main Street around the 2:00 mark you were heading straight towards the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. Then you showed the shops along Railroad Street. You went back up to Main Street at 2:50 but you showed the churches and were already passed the Museum, which is right across the street from the big gray church! A shame you missed it. That is definitely a gem of St J and the whole NEK. Later on at NVU-L (I also still remember it as LSC) you talk about their meteorology program, which is important for the area, but you didn't mention the Eye on the Sky weather station located at Fairbanks; the two senior meteorologists Mark Breen and Steve Maleski, two famous names in NEK and VT, both studied meteorology at LSC before becoming the weather voices on the radio. Great video tho and that foggy view from the south end of Willoughby Gap was spectacular and very "atmospheric".
The NEK isn't St J, it starts at the height of land in Sheffield and extends as far west as Lowell, Westfield, Troy and North Troy, it includes Orleans, Essex and a very small piece of Caledonia County.
How can you talk about St. Johnsbury without even mentioning the St.Johnsbuary Atheneum, the wonderful old library with its really extraordinary art collection for such a tiny town, including many examples of the famous Hudson Valley School? You seem to have a totally egocentric view of the whole area!!
