These where taken along Hang Glider Cliff. They make one pause and wonder why they are hear. A Suicide? An Accident on Sloping Cliff? A Terrible Hang Gliding Accident? Somebody's Favorite Place? Something Else? Pause and think.
While many of grade crossings had been removed at that point, the highway including bridges were only two lanes as the wound through the Tioga State Forest. South of Mansfield, the highway was at grade.
There is a small colony of Mountain Laurel near Fawn Lake. You don't see much Mountain Laurel this far north -- it might have been planted -- but it has survived on this relatively sheltered south-west slope overlooking Fawn Lake.
I will drive in safely today, fighting traffic, staying off the roads that say no commercial vehicles and away from cops with their dicks sticking out the window taking pictures of your speed. As I sing along with everybody’s favorite eye-patch watching cowboy from Maine, Dick Curless.
Hopefully traffic won’t be too bad, 🚗 and the F-350 won’t gallop that much fuel as I commute into the office for this one time. The bike store is open until 6 PM. ⚙️ Shit happens, the bike tire blow out was predictable, but I was so happy when I got to the bike store, and the gave me the exact product I needed down to make and model, except it was a tubeless tire and not an old fashioned tube tire like my bike uses. Such an obvious difference, but I was desprate to get out of the bike store and up to hiking up Blodgett Hill before heading out to see the folks. 🚶 I just hate driving to work, especially not on a 13th. Hopefully they’ll have the proper tire, and I can be back on the road the second half of the week, though maybe not tomorrow as I have a Pine Bush Meeting to go to so I ‘ll be busing it in. 🚍 But at least that’ s not driving the SuperDuty to work. Of course, once I get a cap and I’m heading off to the wilderness, I’ll probably have a different view on the matter.
Shit happens, 💩 and I can be pissed about it all, but hopefully my bike 🚲 will be back on the road by tomorrow. It will be fine driving to work, as much as I hate it. Most people drive to work. 🚗 I haven’t in years except for those occasional times I head out of town. It’s really not that costly, and I make good money, still I hate to piss my life away waiting in the traffic. But it’s one day, I should keep it all in context. It won’t cost me anything but a bit of gas, I am sure they’ll happily exchange the part and credit me for the difference for the less expensive tire. Plus I just found 🖥️ that I am going to be the only supervisor again in the office, so I’ll have a busy day.
I pulled the bed mat out of the Silverado yesterday, it is so small in the SuperDuty as it originally came off my old Ford Ranger years ago. I was thinking about a bed liner – my new truck doesn’t have one – but I also don’t think it’s necessary though I liked how on my old truck it insulated me from the steel in thunderstorms. ⚡ I’ll think about it how to cover my bed. Maybe I should do a simple plastic bedliner before I get the cap. They kind of suck, but I don’t want the cost of a spray-in bed liner. Or maybe I don’t do. And I am not going to be putting in a lot of rough loads, and with the aluminum body I’m less worried about the rust. 🛻 It’s just more fucking money, that’s the thing. I kind of don’t love the idea of camping on a bare steel bed for obvious reasons. Ugh, maybe I should get some quotes and budget for a spray-in bed line for my truck. But 14 or 15 years will come and go so quickly, though think of all those adventures in the mean-time. I just fear how much they’ll cost these days with inflation. And I didn’t really budget for this, but maybe I should. And maybe should I have gotten a Toyota Tacoma, and everything would be cheaper but I like the big trucks. The SuperDuty is so much fun to drive, ⛽ when I don’t look at the MPG gauge.
