Thinking About Camping Up on Forest Road 13 in West Virgini.

This autumn I am thinking about going back to West Virginia again.

One of my favorite places to camp is up in Canaan Heights on Forest Road 13 outside of Thomas.

Dusk

There are some really nice, but small sites notched into the mountain laurel.

The mountain laurel is thick and grows all over in places up in the Cannan Heights.

Camping in the mountain laurel

But there are also some areas of open sods.

Catskill Park 1:24k USGS Topographic Map Index

Sitting by the fire.

Taking in the beauty.

Rainy when I got to West Virginia

Definitely a nice place to explore.

Not exciting

My exciter wire for the battery control relay is causing no excitement. Broke the wire when I knocked loose the switch. While I don’t regularly close the relay between the batteries anymore — as I rely on the solar rather then the alternator for most of my camp power — without the exciter wire not exciting, I have to manually turn on my dash cam and CB radio.

Quaker Lake

I think Trump could be re-elected

Similar to what we saw in 2016, the media is completely missing the fact that President Donald Trump may very well be re-elected in 2020:

  1. Incumbents often are re-elected because they are proven winners and known quantities to voters
  2. Don’t discount the ability of the Federal Reserve and the president to keep the economy healthy through the end of 2020 by manipulating the money supply and tarrifs
  3. Liberals think they are winning on the gun issue but they are also activating gun owners – both suburban men and rural folk to get out and vote too
  4. America while becoming more diverse isn’t necessarily becoming more liberal. Many Hispanics are quite conservative on abortion, and even guns for the more rural and agriculture connected ones
  5. Suburban communities often have a socially conservative undertone that’s being ignored by liberals – and not just taxes or race. A lot of suburbanites have hunting camps
  6. A lot of white liberals are not doing a good job at connecting with African American communities. Saying your for more funding for historically black colleges isn’t necessarily going to engage minorities.
  7. Race and dog whistles still work with many whites who fear losing what they’ve worked hard to earn
  8. The electoral college and US Senate bias towards the conservative leaning small and modest size cities in less populated states like Montana, North Dakota and Iowa. Even if a lot of the vote comes from the city, they are in a more conservative culture.
  9. Politicians, many of them who are conservative, draw house districts, set the time and manor for voting, set voter identification requirements
  10. Lastly, the liberal narrative we hear in New York and California may sound very different in Texas or the Mid West.

Oily Shoreline

I think this oil is naturally occurring from the decomposition of plant material along the shoreline.

Taken on Sunday August 15, 2010 at Point Au Roche.