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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not do Portland, ME on the way home.  That's way, way out of your way. I'm also not sure I'd stop in Boston, if you're planning that as your only stop on the way--that is a LONG two days of driving (Quebec City-Boston and Boston-DC).  And Mystic, CT is also really far out of the way on the way up. Granted, my kids are much younger, all of those routes sound miserable to me.

We drive to our family's cottage in the Laurentians every summer and do what the PPs suggest and stay somewhere in NY State off Rt 87. Lake George is lovely--book a hotel ahead of time. Cooperstown isn't too far out of the way if that would be of interest to your kids.  If you really don't want to drive the same route twice, I'd do NY/Rt 87 one way and Vermont/Rt 91/89 the other.

Note that the border crossing on Rt 87 is going to be the busiest; you can check the wait ahead of time but unless you hit it first thing in the morning, it will likely be about an hour.  Perhaps less going north, but definitely allow an hour coming south.  The crossings in Vermont will be a lot quicker. Also, check for road and bridge closures in and out of Montreal. Summer is construction season up there and the traffic in and around Montreal can be an utter nightmare if and when they close a bridge.[/quote]

Thank you, this is very helpful.  I think you are right about misery.  We don't want misery.

We are not huge baseball fans and my kids aren't interested in Cooperstown.  Lake George is a possibility, however.  Do you have any suggestions as to where we could stay in that general area?

Last night DH and I talked about this route:

DC--> Burlington, VT--> Montreal.

We would stay in Burlington for two nights - it is about 8-8.5 hours to Burlington.  We could consider in the alternative leaving the night before and staying at a cheap hotel just past the Tappan Zee Bridge in order to wake up Friday and only have ~5 hours ahead of us to get to Burlington, in order to have more time there.  In that case the route would be:

DC-->Westchester, NY --> Burlington, VT --> Montreal

For the return we are thinking about:

Quebec City--> North Conway, NH (we have good friends there) -->Boston (my family is there) --> DC

Does that look more pleasant?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions re: Lake George.[/quote]

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