Good evening! Made it back home safely. 🏡

It was a nice vacation, and truth be told unpacking is no more difficult than any weekend trip 💼 but I’ve been moving slowly getting things unpacked especially in my head 🤕. Been wasting my time flipping through social media trying to get my mind off what is coming tomorrow.

Rain and 62 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 61 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 3 am. I have my truck fully unpacked but the kayak 🛶 is still on the roof which means it will be very wet when I finally remove it.

It was a nice trip back, even though at times it poured. 💦 Sometimes it rained so hard, usually when I was either outside hiking or away from my truck or when I wanted to paddle and fish on the Whitney Point Reservoir. 🎣 I did get sweet corn 🌽 at Price’s Dairy and it was good, and checked out the Otselic Valley which was pretty but somewhat unremarkable rural farm country like so many valleys in that part of the Central Leatherstocking region of the state. Get home and you miss that gentle odor of cattle like you find all over the Finger Lakes and Central NY from the thousands of small and large dairies and beef operations scattered along the fertile valleys.

I do really like the deep rural country 🐮 like in some places in the upper valley of the Otselic River. It just is really a different world, so remote and a different way of living. 🗻 I’d sure like to live in a place kind of like that in the future – but probably up in the hills where land is cheaper.

Been going through my photos 📸 and dash cam video 📹 and will be posting more in the next few days. I got some really nice pictures not yet posted to Facebook or anywhere else. And countless other stories to tell.