The Long Absence

I cannot believe that it's been 4 years since my last posting to this blog.

My quest is 80 percent accomplished, and I have a renewed urge to complete the quest -- before eventually moving out of this state.  But before I could resume my exploration of Vermont's towns, I needed to reconcile which towns I have actually surveyed, and which I have not. 

Today I took on that reconciling.  What a mess I had on my hands.  Some surveys in eBird, others still on my phone; numbers on this website not matching those in my Delorme field atlas.  But my Delorme is the foundation of my surveys; it is always updated when I survey a new town.  So, I went thru all 55 map pages and reconciled the Town Number and Survey Date in a spreadsheet.  I thought I had surveyed 215 towns, but in fact I had missed a 216th that I'd surveyed in 2017.  Sorry about that Newbury!

So, three dozen towns to go.  Fortunately, most of them are in clusters around the northern and central areas of the state.  I was surprised to see that I regularly drive thru two of them - Richmond and Williston -  on my way up to Burlington; I've just never gotten off the Interstate and explored them.

Here we go!