11 August 2007 - Norwich, VT
A few days off in Vermont have left us rested (mentally) and exhausted (physically) and a little bit lost (emotionally). While temperatures soared back home in North Carolina (I think they topped out at 104 F), we bopped around the much cooler (highs in the low 80s!) Green Mountain state, hiking trails at Jamaica and Lincoln Peak, catching the Lake Champlain ferry from Charlotte to Essex, putting up screening posters in Middlebury and Vergennes, visiting organic farmers in Bethel, hanging out at our friend Marcia’s home in Sharon, and scoping out the varied nooks and crannies of this beautiful corner of the country.
Without a daily screening to keep us focused, we found ourselves a bit unmoored, having to make up our time as we went along, and not exactly sure what to do. Unsatisfied (and sometimes deeply disturbed) by most of what “the culture” has to offer by way of “things to do and see”, it’s not at all apparent how to be and where to go when we find ourselves in a new place. Our time in the woods and mountains has been the best, though our hikes have stressed our computer-shackled bodies, making plain the costs we have accrued over the past year in getting the documentary, and the screening tours, all put together.
Saturday afternoon we made our way East to the Norwich/White River J