Date Visited: July 18, 2015
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Having visited Wells and Middletown Springs we decided to circle back toward Danby and wound up in Tinmouth; up being an operative word as it appears to reside on the crest of a hill. We got there via a road we decided we had not traveled before. In large part it was like driving through a beautiful forest. We eventually came to the town center where we decided to grab a creemee at the Tinmouth Snack Bar, while we took in the town center, which honestly does not take too long.
Tinmouth is home to SolarFest where people gather to discuss better and more sustainable ways to live, attend workshops and exhibits, eat good fair food and listen to outstanding music. Tinmouth is also known to locals as the home of Tom Peters who achieved fame through his seminal work In Search of Excellence. If one is a fan of contra dancing, Tinmouth’s community center is a once-monthly destination for that activity.
And so having seen most of what Tinmouth has to offer, we decided to meander towards home and wound up on the Tinmouth Road leading back to Danby. As we came to the left hand turn directing us to Tinmouth Pond we decided to check that out. Not surprisingly it did lead to the Pond (actually a small lake) where we could find no public access to the water. As we continued down Scottsville Road we found ourselves traveling deeper and deeper into what you might call the real Vermont. It’s not the Vermont you will see on the pages of Vermont Life magazine. For many Vermonters, life is a hardscrabble existence and yet there was a sense of community in the sometimes ramshackle, sometimes well-kempt dwellings lining both sides of that winding washboard of a dirt road.
We had no idea where we going to end up but lo and behold we dumped out onto Route 7 just a few miles north of our home. We deemed the day a worthy adventure.
