Land For Sale

Beau­ti­fully wooded estate qual­ity par­cel with mature maples and pines, moun­tain stream, and pleas­ant Green Moun­tain views with clearing.

So reads the descrip­tion for any­one inter­ested in acquir­ing the land that we would have built a house on if we had stayed in the US. We’ll no doubt visit Wait­s­field, Ver­mont, a vil­lage near Sug­ar­bush and the Mad River Val­ley ski areas, but we will never live there. The list­ing can be found on www.davidmdion.com, www.realtor.com, www.nneren.com, and www.vrein.com. Back in 2002 I took some pic­tures of the place, the trees, the brook and our­selves there.

It’s some­times hard to imag­ine ‘the road not taken’, but I’ve never had such a con­crete exam­ple of one. Still, I can’t say that we live in a place with any less phys­i­cal beauty (although today being the dark­est and short­est day of the year doesn’t present it in much good light). It’s just dif­fer­ent. A dif­fer­ent road, dif­fer­ent coun­try, dif­fer­ent life entirely.

I hope who­ever does end up get­ting this land enjoys it and is good back to it. It is a lovely spot, and hope­fully will not be turned into a devel­op­ment any time in our lifetime.