We generally don’t give anyone enough notice that we’re heading up to VT, but it all came together this year and we hooked up with a ton of people we wanted to see and never thought we would. We drove all day, did a pit stop at the DaBica’s, and got to Anna and Chris’ to head straight to Sakura for spicy scallop rolls and a stack of Godzillas (or Godzirras as they say.) Things got sloppy quick then we went home and passed out. We went and hit all the usual stops on Saturday, checked out the Louchheim’s new castle on Mallets Bay and after dinner we hooked up with Issa and Brandon for some cocktails. From there we made the rounds with Brandon to take in the sights at Metronome and tried to find him a lady. A few more stops lead us to hook up with the Fuse crew and then back home to get some sleep for day one of snowboard season for us.

After hearing nightmare stories about lift lines we got up early and made it to Stowe by 8, and with the thousand cars in the parking lot already Cleary pulled in right behind us and parked next to us. I had just finished telling Tara how I didn’t have his contact info on me and next thing I knew we were taking runs with him.

Cleary - Essa

We split up with him to go meet up with Carter, and hooked up with a great crew to ride with – about 7 people including Doyle and Del which made for fun riding.

It snowed overnight and things got even better – fewer people and more snow. We rode with Jim and Carter and got into some exhausting tree laps. After riding we worked our way into Richmond for the Celtic First Night and then back to Jim’s and cracked open his new Guitar Hero. Since Jim lives in the third world, he’s got no cable so we set the timer on the iPhone to keep track of when New Year’s actually hit. We stopped for about 30 seconds to watch it, and then right back into Guitar Hero.

After sleeping in we downed another excellent Sadler breakfast and started heading home on the unplowed roads just past Addison, leading us to nightmare traffic on the Thruway and our drive ended up taking almost 10 hours instead of 7, but it was all worth it.

 

 

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