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| A man and his dog miraculously standing on water at the Basin Harbor Club, an upscale resort on Lake Champlain in northwestern Vermont, where you can charge a Tesla Model S as well as recharge your own batteries. |
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| On Monday and Tuesday, unusually high water in Basin Harbor allowed the man shown above and his best friend to walk out on a submerged dock. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
On the way home from the jazz festival in Montreal, I engaged in the sport of passing slower-moving vehicles on winding, two-lane country roads; went for a refreshing boat ride and capped the day with a five-course gourmet dinner.
Our destination was the 700-acre Basin Harbor Club on Lake Champlain in Vermont, where we stayed overnight.
I plugged in our Tesla Model S 60 (208-mile range), and recharged our own batteries with picture-postcard views, great food and wine, and an abbreviated nature walk (we didn't pack insect repellent).
Tesla Motors calls the Model S a premium electric car, so it's fitting its Connectors are available at a premium resort, where the kitchen uses naturally grown or raised produce, meat and cheese from Vermont farms.
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At the Basin Harbor Club, one of the two Connectors installed by Tesla Motors in 2014 doesn't come with a reserved paved parking space, as the ruts in the grass left by my Model S 60 attest, above and below. This Connector charges at the rate of about 30 miles per hour. |
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On Monday night, we stayed in the Homestead Building (circa 1792), near the Tesla Connector, in an updated room with two canopy beds and an unusually large bathroom, below, and had a five-course dinner at a table with a view of the harbor and lake.
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Our first course at dinner was a small bowl of Fresh Food Farm Gazpacho nestled in ice.
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I followed with a Summer Root Vegetable Salad, served with sinfully rich Vermont Chevre, in a Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette.
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| My wife had the Bella Farm Mesclun Salad in a Tarragon Vinaigrette. |
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I also had an appetizer of Sous-Vide Diver Scallops with Crisp Parsnips, made without butter.
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My entree of Grilled Ahi Tuna Steak was served with Garden Fresh Pesto, Green Peas and a Baked Potato, but I asked the kitchen to hold the Truffled Brown Butter Foam.
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| For an entree, my wife chose Braised Vermont Lamb Shoulder with Fried Artichoke Hearts and Navy Bean Cassoulet. |
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| My dessert was Slow Roasted Strawberries. |
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We had three large glasses of wine, including this delicious pinot noir from California ($8).
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| At dinner in the Main Dining Room at the Basin Harbor Club, jackets are required for men and boys over 12, and no denim is permitted. |
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| A hostess brought a selection of house jackets for this man and his son. My safari jacket also didn't make the cut, and I was asked to put on a house sport jacket before we were seated. |
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Basin Harbor Club also has many cottages that can accommodate multi-generational families.
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After a huge buffet breakfast on Tuesday, we walked past this beautiful flower bed as three gardeners were working there.
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| We arrived at the Basin Harbor Club on Monday afternoon just in time to take a 2:30 boat ride on Lake Champlain, where we gawked at a rock formation and waterfall on the New York State side called the Palisades, below. |
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| Our guide also took us to view (with a mobile underwater camera) what is left of the Champlain, a passenger steamboat that ran aground on the rocks in 1875 near the Palisades, and became a "popular tourist attraction." |
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| The Champlain was "lavishly furnished." |
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Web site: Upscale, Tesla-friendly lake resort
Two Tesla Connectors and other EV charging available 24/7 to guests who stop for lunch or stay overnight.
Our room cost $200 a night, and we paid another $120 for a meal plan that included a five-course gourmet dinner and a buffet breakfast with made-to-order omelets for two.
That was exclusive of wine, a mandatory 18% gratuity on food and wine in the dining room, and a room tax.
The boat ride to the wreck of the steamer Champlain cost about $21 per person.
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