Caradhras, Vermont
This is a story from last week. First we went to Mount Snow, Vermont on a ski trip (Fabiola, Fabiola’s parents and I). Everything was great, and we have some pictures. This was Ernesto’s first experience on the snow!
The problem was that we were planning to go to Montreal, QC for a couple of days after going to Vermont. The snowstorm began the night before our trip, and it went on for the whole day. We decided to try anyway, but after an hour of windy, snow-covered roads at 20 mph with near-zero visibility, we decided to stop at the nearest motel and stay another day (this reminded me of how the Fellowship of the Ring was defeated by the Pass of Caradhras).
We happened to stay at the Horizon Inn, the same place where Fabiola and I stayed a couple of years ago. It was completely empty except for its keeper; I was worried that he might have an axe handy like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, but nothing bad happened. We canceled our trip to Canada and went back to New Haven the next day, when the weather was good. The sad part is that some of the cost of the hotel in Montreal could not be refunded and was lost; this was probably some cosmic revenge for the $250 that Fabiola and her mom had won a few days earlier in the Mohegan Sun Casino.
