Quite By Accident

 No Sports Fans, the Red Mist was not involved in a vehicular altercation!

Cannon Drill at Fort Ticonderoga.

She, through an oversight by yours truly, ended up on a ferry.

Yesterday was a drive from Killington Vermont to Fort Ticonderoga and then an overnight in Ticonderoga.

Before I write anything else I must, must express how truly great the Fort is to visit. It is a well done PRIVATE institution which has persevered for over a century displaying and living the history of this storied fort.

But I digress.

Leaving Killington I made an error in navigation. Two really. To explain, I have a corporate phone that I turn off when I am in the US. My company does not furnish a data plan and I only want it for emergencies. Thus, I use an older Garmin GPS and its route and place-finding capabilities are astoundingly primitive compared to Google or Apple maps. It sometimes cannot find towns located only 50 kilometres away in the same state. It can take you on obscure 2nd-class paved and gravel roads. Etc.

Soooooooo...

I drove 5 minutes in the wrong direction and realized I was going South when I needed to go North. Once on track Spots Fans we found some Vermont twisties and the Mist was very happy indeed.

I took VT Route 100 North through Stockbridge, Talcville, and Forest Dale. Delightful! Simply delightful. Passed a Forester and stopped at a Scenic Overlook and it was easily 5 minutes before she passed me. Who knows, she could have stopped for a break of some kind?

After Forest Dale you get out of the mountains and the land opens to a beautiful valley that extends to the New York State border, where the mountains begin again.

Unbeknownst to me, I was heading to a little extra adventure.

The roads went from two-lane State highway to rural two-lane asphalt to gravel. Down a hill and WATER!

At first, the appearance of the road seemed to be a dead-end but as I dropped closer to the water I found I was at a ferry crossing!

Which turned out to be perfect.

Sports Fans, the closest route not using the ferry was south to Whitehall, about 19 miles as the crow flies. Going north is much farther and I would have had to enter Canada and exit back into the US. So, for $12.00 it was well worth the short trip across. The man managing the cars (car) was quite pleasant, and it turns out he was a candidate for Vermont State Senate.

The ferry crossing drops you about 500 metres from the Fort's entrance so it was all good from then on.

The Fort was engrossing. The re-enactors make all their own clothes and use the skills that the men and women of the 1750s would have used to make clothes, cook food, and all the sundry things people needed to do to equip themselves and survive.

The view and location are simply breathtaking and it is recommended to go Mount Defiance for a more panoramic view of this wonderful place.

After that stayed at the "quaint" Super 8 in town. Not much in the way of accommodation in Ticonderoga, New York. And piss poor Internet.

Overall, a banner day Sports Fans!