Day 25: To Bristol and Beyond

WOW we started out really late today. decided to take it easy since we have a week of driving coming up. We drove to Bristol to see the Lords Prayer Rock. Its a Roadside America feature and a geocache! One of the old stories about this rock is, in the early days of the town when the loggers would haul their logs into town they had to climb a steep hill and would cuss and swear at their teams of horses to get them to get a good head of speed to make the climb. As the story goes, a Christian man who was well to do decided to have the prayer carved into the rock to help remind the drivers to keep their tongues in check. Then we went into New Haven to see The grave of Timothy Clark Smith in the Evergreen Cemetery which has a window on it. Timothy was afraid of being buried alive, so he had a special grave built for him when he passed away in 1893. A cement tube leads down to Mr. Smith's face. On top of is a 14x14 inch square piece of glass so he could see up above ground if he was mistaken to be dead. A bell was placed in his hand so he could ring it and hope someone would hear it and let him out. We couldnt see anything down there. Guess what this is also a RA and geocache!

Knit Wits I have a new group project! i found this really cute book in a shop today in New Haven, VT.

Geocaches today, 19.

Tomorrow we leave to start driving back home. Guess what? We are going right through troy again.