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Driver following GPS heads into Lehigh River in Easton, cops say

Driver following GPS heads into Lehigh River in Easton, cops say

"A male driver following a GPS unit ended up in the Lehigh River in Easton, city police said. Gabriel Bishop of Sellersville, Bucks County, at 10:37 p.m. Saturday was driving on a bike path, running along the Lehigh River and parallel to Canal Street. Police said he was following a GPS unit, which led Bishop to drive onto the bike path from Hugh Moore Park."

Back Home Again.

The afternoon I have to unpack from this past month being on the road. I am totally understand if I will leave on Friday or Saturday for my week long trip down to Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York.

Now the forecast is looking better for Friday and I probably could leave by Friday if I really rushed got things packed in my truck.

I’d love to get back out on the road, I really haven’t had a chance to spend much time in the woods this fall much less this past summer.

I want to try to get to Dicks Sporting goods on Friday before I leave, as I want to try to get some 22 ammo to shoot in the woods. The shotgun and air rifle are fine but I think an autoreloader 22 would be much more fun to shoot on my trip.

November nights are long, but I can tell you November has some of the nicest days. I look forward to the coming week on the road.

Put $10 in My Truck. Unlike the Good Ol’ Days Doesn’t Put in Almost a Full Tank.

The other 4948441day, I was driving through Greenville, and my gas tank was a little low. I stopped at Cumberland Farms to get a little bit of gasoline to make it home — basically $10 of gas, or 2.7 gallons at the price of $3.61 a gallon. That literally put in about a 1/8th of a tankful — my Silverado pickup has a 26 gallon gas tank.

Back when I was in High School at Greenville Central School in 2001, you could get a gallon of gas for $1.10 cents. My first car, a Plymouth Sundance had a 14 gallon gas tank, and you could get almost a full tank for $10 back in 2001.

To think how much the world has changed since then. My truck certainly is a fair bit bigger then my first car, and gas prices are a lot higher. In some ways things are more fun now, and someways less. I guess the world has just changed.

That November 2012 Trip

I have been toying around in mind what I want to do in mid-November as I take a week off from work to travel. While there is two big ifs in my mind — the exact amount of time I will have off and the cost of gasoline — the later being a big expensive question, I have already been thinking what I want to do.

Coon Hollow

Traveling in November can be tricky. You get up before sunrise, or near it. You have to rush around all day, knowing you have to locate a campsite by 3 PM or so, and be well on your way of setting up camp by 4 PM, because it will be dark out at 5 PM, and you will want to have firewood and a fire started by dusk. The long evenings are not much of a problem, as I have lighting powered by the deep cycle battery in my pickup, but still daylight limits day time activities. The potential for snow and hunting season are other constaining factors. Cold can be bad, but at least with my current set up with the truck, having a dead battery is not a real risk.

I have three different trip options in mind:

  • Tug Hill/Northern Tier/Adirondack Trip
  • Southern Tier/Western NY/Northern Tier of PA Trip
  • Wayne National Forest and Monongahela National Forest Trip

The Tug Hill/Northern Tier/Adirondack Trip would take me up through the Tug Hill checking out Whetstone State Park, maybe Moose Plains or Independence River Wild Forest, Brasher-Bombay State Forest near Massena, and then maybe somewheres around St Regis Canoe-area. Would have to worry more about snow, and it would be big game season, but its the shortest and most economic trip especially if gas prices are high.

Tower Hill Road

The Southern Tier/Western NY/Northern Tier of PA Trip would have me going out US 20, probably camping at Stony Pond Campground, then out to East Otto State Forest or maybe Sugar Hill in between. I would check out Zoar Valley, and then probably drive down to Chautauqua County and ultimately to Allegheny National Forest. Probably stay there a couple of days, then head back east on US 6, through the Endless Mountains, and return through Binghamton. That said, this is somewhat repeative of the mid-summer trip, so I don’t know if I want to do it again.

First Day of Snow at the Albany Airport, Past 30 Years

Then there is the trip I really want to take, which is to Coal Country Ohio and West Virigina, and the Wayne National Forest and Monongahela National Forest. It would be a delightful trip, even if it was kind of a lng trip. But that is dependent on gas prices, and if I can get a week plus off to make it all happen. But I have truck and gear, so it could be really awesome trip if I could make it happen. I want to travel to new frontiers, and I am ready to make that happen.