So you turned over by Burger King and K-mart?
We like to call that super 7. I think it's technical name is 7A. Or maybe that's 7 and the "old 7" is 7A. Whatever. It was completed back when I was just a pup, maybe a little before. They extended it from Manchester up to East Dorset (where the Wilson House is) when I was say 10 or 11. I remember riding our bikes on the smoothed out road bed and searching for quartz and other shiney rocks in the freshly blasted road sides. They're finally connecting the bypass to Rt 9 east of Bennington(they did the Rt 9 west one 6 or 7 years ago, which connects to NY 7, quite confusing). My parents live a few hundred yards (but 3 miles by car) from super 7 up in Manchester, and we used to live a similar distance from old 7 in town when I was a kid. My uncle even has a bumper sticker that says "Friends don't let friends drive Rt 7" It's a Vermont thing... People from the Addison County region think Rt 7 is like thunderdome. They should ride the LIE sometime!
Sorry you missed the Blue Benn. Thems good eats.
