[Normy]

-I flew into Burlington, Vermont yesterday morning and I have to tell you that this is a wonderful place!

On the shores of lake Champlain, it is a pretty place with no crime and everyone seems intelligent. There is a bike path known as the Burlington Bikepath, and it runs along the lake. Yesterday I ran 8 miles on the north section, today I did 5 on the southern section. I was amazed at how many people were out there on both days! The measure of a place for intelligence can easily be shown as to how much of the population is out on nice days. Yesterday the Burlington Bike Trail was PACKED. I ran a slalom during my 8 mile run, dodging the people who were every 100 feet. I'm serious- I ran 4 miles north, turned around, and came back, and during that 4 miles each way I ran around people and had hundreds of people pass me on bicycles!

I was in San Francisco during the fall of 2008 for a day or two, and I saw the same thing on the bike path there. This path leads one around the top of the city, over the Golden Gate bridge, and then into Sausalito, which is a COOL little town. This bike path in Burlington reminded me of this.

I've been here for a day and a half and I have had a GREAT time! This is another of the "undiscovered places" That you hear about!

If if weren't for the obnoxious ugly hideous incredibly cold winters that they get here...I'd be interested in buying a house.

N!