I bit the bullet and I took off from Wednesday though Labor Day to head out to the Finger Lakes for 13 days of camping. I am still incredibly nervous about it all with my old truck but honestly it’s been running quite well, and I’ve been having fun the past few weekends traveling and this weekend it’s out to Schoharie to float in Schoharie Creek and swim at Mine Kill and enjoy the car show. Two days later at the crack of dawn it’s off to get bacon in Rotterdam, grass in Ithaca and then up to camp by mid-day.
Maybe this weekend is just to prove in my mind that summer vacation will be amazing once it finally comes, 🏊 but I also like Schoharie and Shauls Market is amazing, and it’s going to be a hot weekend, and I don’t want to spend it at home. 🌽 🚲 🏕️ I make good money, work hard, I love my job and I shouldn’t spend my weekends moping around home all depressed about my old rig is slowly but surely falling apart and dying. I’ll have to get up to Northern Lights at lunch time, but I still don’t know what I want to get. Something from a plant that is big and bushy, on the satavia side of things. Truth is I hate the smell when other people are smoking it around the neighborhood, but up at camp I just love the beauty, the colors, the giggles an how the fire looks at night. 🔥 Was it Tropical Skittlez I enjoyed so much last year? I want to laugh, carefree and not paranoid.
I packed a lot of things last night, but truth is for two nights I don’t need much gear. 💼 Just my bathing suit, some changes of clothes, tube and this time the paddle, a few things to eat – maybe I should stop for some bananas way in but I’ll get peaches on Saturday at Shauls 🍑 and I will pack things like my toothbrush and razor after showering. 🪒 Got up fairly early this morning though I’m not needing to leave that early, though as I said I want to have time to swing past the store. I think I’m good on cash but if not there is that CapCon drive through at Wally World I can visit though they don’t have small demonation bills.
Potentially rain ☔ to start out the week and cool to close out the month, but I really want an anti-climatic vacation. With the extra two days – – really only three more then usual as usually I do from Friday through Sunday – – I don’t have to feel like every day I’m wasting by hanging out at camp and just reading, or riding my bike and spending days fishing or floating on Foster Pond or just listening to cows moo 🐮 and tear the grass as they graze. It’s really okay to spend some time giggling 🤭 and drinking beer 🍻 with nothing better then to listen to an audio book or read a book about homesteading, the wilderness, or some other world far away from where I am.
I do think slowly but surely the paranoia is fading from ym mind, 🛻 it’s getting easier to enjoy traveling and seeing America again. I don’t think Red will ever make it down on West Virginia again but there will be a new truck and other adventures. ☺️ Who knows if I really enjoy my Michigan and Wisconsin trip next summer in my new rig, I could do a post-election day trip down to West VIrigina. Often that week after Election Day they still have some color in the lower elevations of West VIrigina and it can be milder, though the high country can certainly be frosty or get snow by mid-November. ☃️
Yesterday I had to wear glasses 👓 all day because my eyes 👀 were so irrated. I really want to get LASIK done this autumn. I will just have to tap savings to do that. I need to get my credit limit raise 💳 so I can put it on my cards for points. I should call the bank 🏦 about that soon. Also need to call the state board for something work related but I’ve been avoiding that like so many things in life. My eyes are feeling a bit better today and I’ll wear my contacts, indeed I was able to wear them last night.
Been continuing to listen to Robert Lover’s Dating Essentials for Men. 🧼🧽 One of the suggestions was to get a house cleaner to clean your apartment or house, so you can bring a girl back there. And the maintaining it after yourself. I don’t know about that. And buying nice clothes. Again, I don’ t care about those things, and I don’t want a girl either that does. And to think more about sex, but I’m like whatever. I do take a lot stock in the importance of listening, asking questions. I talk to much. And not being afraid of strangers and starting up a conversation by asking questions both on the street, and actually clicking on profiles on Facebook dating. But I’ve been busy and I don’t know the whole process seems a bit creepy. Yet, I need to get over that because people wouldn’t be on dating sites if they weren’t interested in meeting new and different people.