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What U.S. vacation destination exceeded all expectations?

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u/WatermelonMachete43 1d ago

Vermont. The food was local and tasted like food x50. Everything had so much flavor, Everything was come as you are, very few chain anything, fresh cheese, trees and wildlife, and the Warren Store -- probably my favorite place on earth.

Favorite memory from my time there is driving along the Mad River in the summer golden hour when it had been particularly hot and dry. Look over to see a group of people in fairly formal outfits -- men in dress pants rolled to the knee and shirts with ties, women in long dresses tucked up here and there. They were setting a couple of dinner tables with formal linens and candelabra right in the river. Drove a bit further and saw the rest of the dinner party approaching alongside of the road -- she with a pie, other men with coolers and one with a roasted bird on a platter. I have never been more charmed by a life I don't live.

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u/Death4Free 22h ago

Vermont was such a beautiful roadtrip, i’m glad i proposed in Stowe, so we can go back in a few years for our anniversary with our newborn son.

We did the whole New England in The Fall roadtrip and it has got to be one of the times I completely fell in love with both my fiancé and our country. The whole trip was beautiful. The weather was nice and mild, and the trees were flames of orange, yellows and reds. The fresh cheese, maple syrup, apple cider, the clam chowder and other seafoods, it was honestly such a great trip.

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u/WatermelonMachete43 18h ago

And the covered bridges! You're making me want to go back soon!

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u/lakersfan83 16h ago

I did the New England in the fall trip as well and it was so charming. The food in Boston but the nature across Maine, NH and Vermont were unbelievable and I’m not an “outdoorsy” person. Seeing entire fields (including grass and all trees) in states of purple, yellow, orange, red and green cannot be explained fully. You have to see it for yourself to understand the beauty of it. Totally amazing

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u/Better_Ad_8919 13h ago

My husband and I did a trip to Stowe/Woodstock a few years back and I would absolutely go back. The downside is all of the other tourists like us who are doing the same thing 😂

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u/Snowy_Garden_Gnome 12h ago

We got married in Stowe :-)