Travel report:
Silas Griffith Inn
Last week we woke up to a partly cloudy morning and said good bye to the Inn, this is a definitely a place to come back to.
Cathy has created a comfortable place for people to stop at. The sitting rooms are set up for adults or kids and they had a wide screen TV with every game console you could imagine hooked to it. So if it rains and you decide to stick around the common room then the kids shouldn’t drive you… too nuts?
Common room
We hit the road and drove to Arlington where we located two covered bridges and I found a stream that was behind an antique store that used to be a grist mill.
grist mill
We then stopped at the Norman Rockwell exhibit which by the way is in a sugar shack! Yes I don’t kid you and our opinion is if you want Norman Rockwell then go to Stockbridge MA. I will say their apple cider doughnuts are great as are the rest of the edibles they have there.
We traveled over 313 into NY and down route 22 until we picked up route 2 back into the Berkshires. Anyone who has never driven that winding steep road
old shed
between the NY border and Williamstown is missing it. It’s too late for this year but make sure you do it next year. The biggest trouble I had was gawking and not hitting the guard rail.
We both feel an entire day needs to be given to North Adams and Williamstown. The MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams and Williams College in the latter are such that on a sunny afternoon you will be hard pressed to not spend days there…
We stopped at the Eagles nest for dinner with the sun setting and while the food was very good and their signature mulled apple cider drink was very warming on a cool afternoon (44 degrees) the service was a little distracted… maybe it was the valley view’s? It’s good to do once but I’d like to hear if anyone else had a different take on this place..
View from Eagles Nest restaurant
We continued in on the Mohawk trail and the sun soon set. My only disappointment was that the color all day had been less than stellar and a waitress at the Eagle’s Nest said she thought the rain had drained the color over night. I mean I had found great color the day before but today the colors were muted all through the south west VT into NY and back along the Mohawk Trail.
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Jeff Folger
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