Three Interesting Things About Vermont

Hemmings Service StationThere’s no doubt about it, Vermont is a fascinating and exotic place. Drive up Route 7 and it’s like you’re crossing into a different country. For example:

1. Gun laws. In Vermont they’re virtually non-existent. They require no permits or registration and you can pretty much buy as many as you want. And in Vermont you can carry a concealed handgun as long as you don’t do so in a school or government building.

2. Vermont’s civil union law. You want to spend your life with someone of the same sex, go right ahead, it’s Vermont. Sure, the federal government still withholds certain benefits, but you can thank Bill Clinton for that.

3. Cheaper gas. That photo was taken on Sunday, May 26 after I filled my tank at the Hemmings service station in Bennington. Actually, since it’s full service, I sat in the car while someone else did the work. It felt like 1979. If I’d said a year ago that $3.89 was cheap, you’d have thought I needed my head examined.

Guns for everybody, same sex unions, cheap gas. Throw in a case of beer and you’ve got yourself a party.

9 thoughts on “Three Interesting Things About Vermont

  1. you are spot on about Vermont!

    I am a native Vermonter who has been living there my entire life and Vermont is a place of contradiction! There is not a place like it anywhere else.

  2. I’m a native Vermonter, too. Everyone’s related to everyone else. Hell, Jesse and I are probably related.

    You’d have to be prepared to become a Sox fan.

  3. I live in Washington county and we are always slipping over the border to such a beautiful state.
    Easy gun laws and very little violent crime.

  4. .. yeah, but any place where the phrase, “Jeezum Crow” is uttered more than twice a year and outside an old reprint of Lil’ Abner has got to make you think..

    then again, the state food is Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, so I guess it evens out…

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