Lake Champlain living - a dream come true

This will NOT be the last sunset we see from Thompson's Point

Fancy Roamer - link on Airbnb to our new property

From 1964-1976 our family lived on Lake Champlain for most of the summer.  The first year, our family of 8 drove across country from Colorado and the following June we moved permanently to Vermont.  Two years later we added a 9th to our family.

We owned Gardiner Island off Long Point in North Ferrisburg VT with our grandparents and our Aunt and Uncle and their three children.  So from age 10 until age 22 I spent many hours on a 4 acre Island with a generator for power, an old stone house and a bunkhouse where the kids slept.  We also had a houseboat that our family lived on and traveled all around Lake Champlain.  Those were magical summers that I treasure more and more every day.

The property was sold in 1976 and since then I have longed to own a "camp" on the Lake again.  We looked at some camps near Gardiner Island in the mid 1990s, and eventually did buy a house in South Hero Vermont in 2008, BUT it is not right on the Lake.  My first summer there, swimming at White's Beach with friends, I said "Now this is swimming, in a lake not in the Ocean".  The Lake has been calling to me for most of my life.

Last August the dream to own a property came true for our extended family.  We own some real estate together and we meet regularly to manage the properties.  When we articulate a strategic vision it often included the idea of owning "a family compound".

We found the property, 3 dwellings, with the ability to gather together AND have privacy if we want.   After a lot of conversation we realized we could not let the opportunity pass us by and we made a huge leap of faith the buy it for our generation and for future generations.

Yes, we are crazy and in LOVE with our new property

We are actively filling weeks for next summer through Airbnb and Vermont Properties AND we will have some weeks for ourselves.   We had a bonfire there in -1F degrees over the holidays and we anticipate many picnics on the beach and nights spent around the outside fire place.