My parents and I could never figure out a good strat to Desert, whereas Island we can usually get a good thing going.

There are a bunch of restaurants in Stowe, Matterhorn is pretty decent, so is Piecasso. If you're looking for low maintenance activities, they are pretty sparse, but you could do a microbrewery trip. Stowe Cider, Ten Bends and a few others in the area. Von Trapp has a nice brewery tour and beer hall. There are also many nice parks to sit at and have a picnic lunch. Plus the Ben and Jerry's factory is about 20 minutes away in Waterbury (next town over), I always recommend that one.

Does Frozen Ogre still host DnD events?

Vocal minority I would say. Essex is a red county to be fair but it's Trump land in Lamoille too and we are still a blue county by a longshot.

I mean CDs have better quality than streaming. Obviously if you have a crappy player it won't sound good, but since the overwhelming majority of albums today are recorded digitally there's virtually no difference between vinyls and CDs.

Humanity absolutely fucks.

I think Colm is up to something, just a suspicion.