Also luckily I'm not travelling to the US
A lucky break all around, that.
Yesterday I toured Vermont, the safest state in America.
From what I saw the state is beautiful, autumn colors truly magnificient. The scenery superb.
Must be the cleanest and best maintained state.
All homes, buildings, streets, bridges in towns/cities well maintained.
The lakes picture perfect.
It would be a wonderful place to live.
If I had billions in the bank I would buy holiday properties there.
But alas, I will have to make do with virtual touring...which with the quality of video today is just like being there.
Did you tour Burlington?
Yes, sort of.
The video was an overview of Vermont.
Then you can search more detailed videos of individual places.
The Burlington Waterfront Park was featured, along with the Boathouse, Burlington Bike Path, Shanty on the Shore etc.
The colours of the trees in Saint Albans were mindblowing.
Just clicked on youtube video "Downtiwn Burlington Vermont Virtual Walking Tour:
I'm now walking along the 'Burlington, Church St Marketplace'
Tree-lined....'October 59 degrees F/ 15 C'.
Now standing in front of Burlington City Hall, an impressive building.
Any mention of the drugs and homeless problem?
Vermont has had hippy communes, and the state is considered a counterculture epicenter:
Earthworks: A Franklin commune that raised animals, grew crops, and tapped maple trees
Earth People's Park: A 592-acre commune in Norton where the Woodstock Nation found a home
Free Vermont: A network of communes and collectives that included buying clubs, health clinics, and free schools
Total Loss Farm: A commune that some say was fun-loving and had good food
The hippie movement in Vermont in the 1960s and 1970s had a lasting impact on the state, including:
Social change: Vermont's population increased by 15%, the largest influx since the Revolutionary War.
Food co-ops: Free Vermont laid the groundwork for food co-ops.
Alternative institutions: Free Vermont laid the groundwork for alternative institutions.
Maverick mystique: The utopian experiment helped shape Vermont's maverick mystique.
The film Far Out documents the lives of a group of New England writers, activists, and artists who transformed Vermont and western Massachusetts.
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Vermont needs to work together with California and Nevada to create communes and gardens and orchards, etc, where the homeless can live and work, complete with libraries, tennis courts, and swimming pools, etc. We have 175,000 homeless people in California, plus we have refugees on our Southern Border looking for work and homes. Agriculture can help to save these people, and good loving communes would be fantastic.
And of course, they can have churches at the communes, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.