This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to hear! So I guess I should give it another try? When does it start to get cold up there? The weather was beautiful over Labor Day weekend.

PS: I never would have thought (being from New York) that I would have one of the best bagels of my life at a shop in Burlington, VT!

PSS: I read Steve's post after composing the original version of this one. I think I just happened to see the wrong roads in Burlington. The wedding we attended involved a lot of back-and -orth along Williston Rd, Main Street, etc., which are busy turnpikes, much like the ones we avoid here on Long Island. And many of the people who WERE riding the green bike lanes were riding like typical Long Island fools, going the wrong way, crossing pedestrian-style rather than as moving vehicles, etc. This was pretty much the extent of my exposure to Burlington's roads until we drove through Grand Isle on the last day. I must have also seen a lousy part of the Lake Champlain Bikeway there, too, because it seemed very narrow and not too well maintained.

Believe me, I want Vermont to be everything I've always heard for bicycling, so keep the reassurances coming!