One gray night it happened 🐲

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant’s rings make way for other toys
One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar

So the summer 2025 camping season kicks off, πŸ•οΈ traveling and exploring like so many other years. It’s starting out such a typical way, packing my gear in Big Red πŸ›» getting ready to head out of town after work at 3 PM that is after getting bacon πŸ₯“ at For the Love of Bacon. Maybe get set up around by 6 PM or so and have good fire going by 8 PM. I wanted to pick up some pallets to chop up for wood but I’m not sure if I will have room with the bike and stuff. πŸͺ΅Probably for the best, I shouldn’t be burning pallets with all the nails and crap that I could get into those 35 inch tires.

It’s good to be doing it one more year, πŸ‘΄πŸ» as both I and Big Red πŸ›» are getting old and who knows how many more year’s I’ll be traveling. I tell myself some day I’ll own a homestead, and that will mean staying home to feed goats 🐐 and pigs. πŸ– That said, I will be enjoying that bacon I got today. I guess I could buy a subruban house, but I think that’s kind of pointless. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ I don’t know, maybe next year I’ll get a new truck and conitue to travel, but I’m also kind of bored with that and kind of do want to settle down. Plus at times all that time in wilderness gets lonely. β™₯️

Woke up this morning feeling a bit sore but rested. πŸ›οΈ Maybe I’m just nervous, it could be caffeine or just getting started. I checked the fluid levels in Red, and he’s running good, drove great to the store. Still it’s the first big adventure in a while. πŸ”₯ Looking forward to a good fire tonight, where I’m camping there won’t be a lot of dry grass and rain is coming tomorrow, β˜” though now not until late. Need to get some E-books, Audiobooiks, and Podcasts to enjoy while I’m up at camp. πŸ”Š πŸ“š I’ll do that today at work.

My bags are packed πŸ’Ό

I was so anxious about this trip probably because I am overtired, as I slept poorly last night. But tomorrow it’s actually happening, I am leaving work  at 3 PM.

First thing I noted was gas was cheap – $3.02 a gallon β›½ but avocado’s πŸ₯‘ were expensive. Thanks Trump. Only needed about $70 in groceries but I think I was pretty much good on camping supplies and just needed a partial restock of my pantry before heading north. Got $40 from the bank so I had some money to get bacon πŸ₯“ from For the Love of Bacon on my way up to the Adirondacks. Going to grab a few pallets if I have enough room, though my truck is kind of packed with the camping gear plus the burnables I plan to burn that accumulated over the winter – lots of wrappers and paper for fire starting and burning. πŸ”₯ Would have brought more, but the stuff that isn’t confidential I guess the recycling man can get. ♻️

Going to be off the grid for a few days, πŸ”• which is great though it’s pretty remote country. But I’ll be fine, I always am. Going to rain a lot on Friday night into Saturday but Friday and Sunday look pretty good for the bulk of the day, and Saturday I can maybe smoke some pot and do some reading πŸ“– and fishing 🎣 in the rain on the East Branch. 🚴 Brining the mountain bike 🚲 and I’ll ride on Sunday around the Perkins Clearing, do some fishing and then I was thinking I would drive back to Rotterdam Junction by 4 or 5 PM and ride the Erie Canal Trail until dusk and then come home and unpack. Get groceries and do my laundry on Monday night after work. I am so excited to be heading back up to the remote wilderness again!

Point 42, -74

The spot on the map you end up in Eastern NY when you are using unprojected coordinates in Eastern NY and forget to cast as a float. I wonder how many people end up at Glenhurst Stock Farm when their GPS or mapping program goes nutty.

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