Never been there, but someone complaining about not getting authentic Mexican at a VT taco joint is hilarious to me. The condescension, finished off with a cultural appropriation comment…cherry on top!

Zoom in and you can see “Pure Vermont” above and “Grade A Maple Syrup” below the maple leaf on the cap, so no.

Yut yut. Agreed!

Lease or buy? If leasing then definitely buy separate snows. You will save tire wear on the leased tires so you don’t have to buy new tires on the return, plus better winter performance obviously. If you’re buying it all depends on how much you think you’ll need to drive in actual storms. 90% of the time a good all season is enough. When they are fresh they can handle most situations, but it won’t be as pleasant. I wouldn’t have said that until I had to drive a rental Santa Fe with fresh all seasons (literally 200 miles on the rental when we picked it up) through a snow storm that dropped 18” on the transcanada highway from revelstoke to golden BC. Not nearly as comfortable as driving with snows, but just had to drive a little more defensively. Zero problems…it’s going to come down to the driver when it comes to the safety of driving in snow. Bottom line is, if you’re driving to the mountain after snowstorms then get some fucking snow tires! Just so much better performance (and therefore safer) if you anticipate driving through snow on the regular.

Walked on what? Them not giving you $1200-1600 of tires for nothing?

For cornering and stopping? Definitely. The going is not generally the concern though.

Knowing how to drive in snow starts with winter tires. If you don’t have them in a real snowstorm then it doesn’t matter if you “know how to drive in snow”.

Lol. Thanks for the link. It was my first time ever and I did it because I was right at the turnaround and could see both lanes northbound were completely empty, so I just went for it. I’m wondering if I actually saved any time but no way to know.

Least of our problems now, I think. I was backed up to the visitor center going south on 89 at 12:30 today (leading to Richmond exit and the construction merge). That’s over two miles before the “zipper”. I’m assuming it was an accident, but pulled a u-turn for the first time ever on an interstate and went Rt 2. Was moving by the time I got there but that road was backed up too. Debated driving to 15 and going to Morrisville then down 100 to Waterbury. Such a mess. VT infrastructure problem or poor traffic management? Both? Anyone know when that bridge will be back up and this ridiculous bottleneck will end?