Sunday: Drove 2 hours basically diagonally across the entire state of Vermont to the best dog place ever called Dog mountain. Its a 150 acre where the grounds are dedicated to allowing dogs be free and enjoy the outdoors. Our mission is to steward and sustain the Dog Mountain property in Vermont as a unique national treasure that honors the healing power of dogs, nature, love, and art, and to preserve and celebrate the important artistic contributions of Dog Mountains iconic creator, Stephen Huneck. There is an art gallery of things for sale that are all dog related and super cute. Then theres a Dog chapel where people have posted photos to memorialize their furry friends who have left them. Then theres 10 miles of hiking trails, a dog lagoon and a grassy stage area. There was even a concern happening Sunday evening with the Levitt Amp Music series- this week was Albannach from Scotland. A scottish pipe and drum band that also has a didjeridoo player- very interesting cross cultural music.
Wednesday: Its the middle of July, and while its not record breaking heat like it is in Europe the Northeast has been getting a
heat wave. warm and Vermont is not prepared for this since it only happens a few times a year. No A/C and on a work day Im still stuck inside on pretty miserable. So after work, we left immediately to find a swim hole for the evening. What makes it worse is I work roughly AZ time still so I cant leave work until at least 5:30/6pm local time. bleh. Of course Copper hates the water, and even has anxiety staying on the shore and watching me swim. Whats with that?
Thursday: In an effort to battle only writing about the positives (a thing almost everyone does on social media). Ill be honest and say this day sucked. One of the things that really sucks about traveling full time is a lack of control over your space which is especially problematic when something goes wrong. Everything is fine when things work, but when something stops working, you dont have a game plan or back up. Today it was the internet. It started by being intermittently on and off. Couldnt figure out what or why. But basically as soon as I got logged into work systems and
got the VPN up it would go back out. Cycling between getting connection and not every 10 minutes. Ive had internet issues before and can work for a few hours from a hotspot on my phone. Unfortunately, Im so remote the cell connection my phone gets is absolutelty terrible, so that wasnt a feasible back up this time. Further, the cell service being bad, meant that even when the host was trying to troubleshoot the internet and called the ISP, neither of us can get cell service strong enough to make the call and be next to the router to give them the information, restart the router etc they need. Ugh! I even tried lugging setup to another house on the farm and working there but they had different internet issues. That also involved disconnecting my desktop (no I dont have a laptop...), folding up my folding table and lugging it to the next house only to have different issues. Did I mention the morning was still really hot and humid? gross! Given how remote Im staying on a farm (17 minutes to town) and that I have a desktop not a laptop, its pretty inflexible to move
locations for better wifi. Sigh... This is one of the reasons Im still considering getting a travel trailer or RV instead of staying in airbnbs.
Friday: Internet was back up and stable for work. After work Copper and I headed ack to Okemo Mt resort for their Friday evening lawn concert like last week. But this weeks band was pretty meh. The audience attendance numbers reflected this as to last week. Didnt stay long 😞
Saturday: While after the scorching day on Wednesday, we had in later on Thursday and cool it off, friday got warmer and Saturday even warmer- well into the 90s with humidity and no AC. So todays game plan was to escape the heat however we could and still enjoy Vermont scenery. First was a drive to the top of Mt.
