Summer is a special time in New England. It's just a 3 months in a year where we don't have to wear jackets. It's not like in Asia where we have the sun all year long and ignore it's presence. Around here, it is precious commodity and people tend to bask in it for as long as they can. They take most vacations and half days off during the summer.
Also, unlike Asia, we don't go to the mall during summer to get air-conditioning (AC) to cool ourselves off. The idea is to go out and have do something. Vermont is one of the outdoors-ier type of places mostly because of the beautiful scenery all year long. Every season is special, and there's no better time to be in Vermont than during the summer. That's also the time when I don't go out of state unless I'm going to the beach.
After the much revered Friday night dinner, what better way to burn it off than by going hiking. We've been in Vermont for quite a while but we've never hiked before because mainly of the fear of having to bring a kid. Now she's a little bigger, so we chose to go up the nearest and easiest place to climb -- Mount Philo.
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