What adventures are next? 🏕️ 🏊♂️
On my priority list is to finish cleaning and removing my gear from Big Red and get him sold even if it means a few more weekends in town. I also need to replace the snapped derailuer on my mountain bike and get that back on the road.
July 29 or 30th I want to head out to the Finger Lakes for summer vacation through August 9th. Just the usual Chicken Coop most likely. It’s fine for this year until I figure out this Michigan trip or whatever is next.
In the meantime if it’s hot and sunny, probably do Burnt-Rossman Hills, the Schoharie Farm Stands and swimming in Mine Kill. Maybe another trip to the Potholers, sticking a Friday or Monday onto the weekend to get me three nights. I was just up there but it’s nice and cold especially on a hot summer day, especially if I do the House Pond Campsite. If my bike’s working, which it will be once I get the new derailuer, I’ll probably spend Sunday or whatever my last day at the Potholers riding around Little Falls or maybe one of the other Mohawk Valley hick towns on the Canalway to smell some hogs, cows or gasp an illegal burning barrel. Enjoy the country air and scenery.
I do like my fires and it was too long away from the wilderness. I know I got to get the bike fixed and the truck sold and I need money but I do like having fires, and satisfaction of seeing the empty waste bucket. And smoking dope and drinking beer in the wilderness. I got my fishing license and rod, I should spend more time fishing too. And I do want to hike Bramley Mountain and ride more of the Catskill Scenic Trail. Same kind of things for August.
Labor Day Weekend I’ll probably head up before work to Speculator on that Friday, set up camp and work remote that day and camp hopefully on Hardwood Hill where I usually have excellent cell service and it’s great fun watching those starry skies. Then maybe late September do a similar remote work trip to enjoy the autumn colors. Columbus Day Weekend maybe work remote from Lost Pond Campsite at Charles Baker, or maybe Chestnut Ridge campground or the Firetower Site, depending what is available. And maybe November after the election – November 7-15 head down to West Virginia for a week if there ain’t too much of a risk of ice and snow. Probably just hang out in Canaan Heights.
