Archive for March 28th, 2010

The girlfriend and I were driving yesterday from White River Junction, Vermont to Burlington, and is par for the course for us, we consulted the GoogleMaps application on her Blackberry for directions. To our pleasant surprise, Google actually suggested a route consisting of small highways and county roads rather than the few major interstates that criss-cross Vermont. Like most people, we’re always torn between the faster highways and the more interesting/scenic byways, so we were glad to see that latter actually seemed to be the faster and more efficient route in this case.

Quick aside regarding White River Junction, which you probably haven’t heard of: it’s a small town just over the Vermont/New Hampshire border, near Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire, the town in which Dartmouth is actually located, was surprisingly boring. There were about two “downtown” blocks of shops, mostly chain stores and clothing retailers, with a few bland-looking restaurants and one pretty good independent bookstore (the official Dartmouth bookstore, like that of most major universities, is operated by Barnes and Noble).  Read the complete post...