Sitting back at the overlook on the Long Path over Switz Kill Valley… ⛲

I really enjoy looking at the rural country, the hill towns I grew up in. While I doubt I’d ever want to live within an area so close to a city or even in New York, I do love 😍 the beautiful rural country. I’ve been to Partridge Run a million times, I know the land as well as any avid hunter, but living in the city I don’t get out here all that much anymore. I probably should spend more time out here, I love how the views stir my soul and the feeling I get out in the rural country but when you live in city motoring becomes such a hassle with the traffic, the cops, all the regulations. 

There is no shortage of rural remote, hilly farm and forest country in America. Even the hill towns of Albany County aren’t that unique – you can find even more wild and remote country a few miles west in Schoharie and Madison County, to say nothing of Chenango. And I know there are states with much more freedom and a very different outlook on life, with a government not so detached from rural life. Eventually I’ll be there but first I have to hike back to my truck before it gets really dark and cold out.