Farmstands

Today we visited two farmstands in New York. We drove in two cars across the Grand Isle ferry to Plattsburgh and visited the Everett Orchards farmstand. We had lunch there, and then Nancy and Laura left us and went to St. Lawrence University for an overnight visit. Laura is considering applying there.

Camila, Alvaro and I continued on to Peru.

Of course, that's Peru—the town in New York, not Peru—the country in South America. We drove by several apple orchards and a large dairy farm in Peru.

Then we visited the Rulfs Orchard farmstand, where we rode on a tractor-drawn wagon down to the pumpkin fields and Camila picked out a pumpkin. The tractor driver was the owner of the farm, Bob Rulfs.

Mr. Rulfs was pleased to have us visit his farm, and he gave us a half dozen cider doughnuts for the trip home. We went home on the Port Kent–Burlington ferry. We had good views of the Green Mountains. Here is the range from Mt. Mansfield to Camels Hump, with Burlington in the middle. At the left is another ferry going the other way.