Back Home After the Great Autumn Trip of 2021 🍂

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Back Home After the Great Autumn Trip of 2021 🍂

Looking through all the pictures I took and remembering the good and bad of the autumn trip that somehow ended up in November and down in West Virginia that is until I destroyed that wheel bearing on my truck. It happens but it still was a good trip even if everything didn’t quite go to plan — not that there was much of a plan to start out with.

Things are mostly unpacked, cleaned up and put away. I will need to get more food and propane at some point, although I guess I can wait until I head out camping next time for the propane. I am thinking my next best chance to head out of town will be Buy Nothing Day, November 26th. Continuing to look through my photos, the best of which I will be posting over the next few days. Also looking through the notes I jotted down throughout my trip.

Am I thrilled to be back home? Of course not, but it would have been another cold night had I stayed out one more night camping at Long Pond State Forest then more of a hurry back to Albany to get unpacked on Sunday. Instead, I can ease myself back into the routine and the upcoming work week. and look through my photos and think about my memories.

Eastern Continental Divide – Wikipedia

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Eastern Continental Divide – Wikipedia

The Eastern Continental Divide, Eastern Divide or Appalachian Divide is a hydrographic divide in eastern North America that separates the easterly Atlantic Seaboard watershed from the westerly Gulf of Mexico watershed. The divide nearly spans the United States from south of Lake Ontario through the Florida peninsula, and consists of raised terrain including the Appalachian Mountains to the north, the southern Piedmont Plateau and lowland ridges in the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the south. Water including rainfall and snowfall, lakes, streams and rivers on the eastern/southern side of the divide drains to the Atlantic Ocean; water on the western/northern side of the divide drains to the Gulf of Mexico.

Good Morning – November 13, 2021

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Good morning! Exploring the Robert Riddell State Park outside of Oneonta before heading home.

Kind of a cold and damp day to end the autumn vacation. I could have stayed another day at Long Pond but with rain and snow coming and being out of propane, I decided now was the best time to head home after exploring the state park.

Clouds, drizzle and 46 degrees at the Robert V. Riddell State Park. ☔ There is a south breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️ That’s to be expected, as each night on average now is below freezing.

Not the nicest day ever, 🌧 but so far the rain has held off. I do expect it to pick up later, so I don’t plan to dwell at the park too long, but I do want to get out and enjoy things before my vacation is over and I’m back home. I’m almost done doing the loop trail on the northern parcel, and will soon hike back to the waterfalls, maybe Mud Pond and some of the scenic vistas supposedly on the top of the hillside. I am hoping for some nice overlooks. Then back home.

Without much propane, it was kind of a cool night as the firewood supply is pretty limited at Long Pond. 🌟 I did sit down by the lake for a while before retiring for the night 😴  then I got to bed after taking down the tarp. Nothing was wet this morning, which was a relief as it means a lot less taking down and drying out of things when I get home.