We left the campsite after the best bathhouse shower of the trip – high pressure, hot water, a place to put your stuff, etc.  Scott was so enamored with the shower we later learned that he – once more – left his soap in the shower.  Luckily he had more in the camper.

Ted had recommended that we go to the American Precision Museum in Windsor, VT, which was right on our way.  Our biggest challenge getting there was their lack of RV parking – but we parked on the side of a nearby street without incident.  The museum was very small, but interesting – charting the development of machining tools and automation techniques from the civil war to the present.  The modern stuff – HAAS CNC machines and 3D printers – were very familiar to us. The most interesting of the older technology was a machine that produced wooden rifle stocks by copying a master. These tool were the first to add enough precision to the manufacturing process to be able to make interchangeable parts. This stuff really did change the course of history.

Next stop was a long overdue reunion with our dear friend Rachael Miller of the Rozalia Project , and Cora Ball .  While Rachael was a long time training instructor for VideoRay, and although we got together many times at VideoRay events, we had never met her husband James Lyne , a world-famous sailing coach.  We made it to their high-tech but rustic house in Granville, VT – at an altitude where the fall colors were fading due to the altitude but the surrounding area we would find is beautiful.  We connected up the camper to their largely-solar-powered house and settled in for a stay as long as we could before they kicked us out.