It’s Off on Freedom 250 Trip 🎇 🇺🇸
The smell of the silage was so intoxicating last night as I loaded up the SuperDuty with all that camping gear, the burnables, and everything else I needed for an adventure. Got propane, supplies at Wally World, and a few other things I need for camping. One of the trolls was pointing out it’s not Freedom 250, as I drive an F-350, which is a bigger number. Honestly, I didn’t need the one-ton axle but I did want a HD truck for reliability and durablity on rough roads, and high lifted-like ride without all the problems a lift kit brings in.
Driving in, it strikes me as a good thing about how similiar the SuperDuty is in many ways to my old rig, 🚚 especially now it’s loaded down with camping gear. But it rides much better, with much better brakes and power in the front end. A 6.8L gasser may not be most powerful SuperDuty out there, but it blows past a 5.3L half ton. And you really feel it when it’s loaded down with the cap, the camping gear, and batteries. No more alternator stink, 🔋any more. It really does drive pretty nice on the highway and on the rural roads. And I like it, even if I do admit the steering wheel still feels awful plasticky and the nose is so godly plastickly and homely. But yeah, it’s a base model Ford. All of my camping gear 🎒 is laid out in the new truck. I saw a much nicer SuperDuty, which I could have had, if I was willing to spend more, but $60k really was my limit of what I was willing to pay for a truck.
I ended up getting another campstove. 🫕 $70 bucks, whatever. The burners just didn’t hold up for long on the other stove, but granted I do camp a lot. Another Coleman so I can pull parts off the old one and swap it on it. And maybe eventually get rid of it as mixed scrap, with all the other metals I’ve accumulated over the years not having trash service. 🗑 Also got a camp chair. Propane tank is full, got some food, some Greek yogurt, blueberries, zucchini and a few other tihngs. 🍆 Hoping to get more at Samdill Farm this afternoon, along with getting some weed in Menands to smoke, maybe some cigarettes for that occassional puff with a beer 🚬, and maybe a few other supplies. The propane tank is full now, I needed 3 1/2 gallons of propane, but then again I had used the propane for 4 cold December nights so it’s good it’s full, as it will be 6 nights of camping ahead.
I decided I am definitely not camping at House Pond this weekend, 🏕 as I’m tired of that but maybe Speculator or maybe further up on Piseco-Powey Road for a few nights, before I head to Moose River Plains. I heard another of the culverts was damaged and part of the road is closed, besides the section closed for construction so I am a bit worried 👷♀️ that there won’t be enough campsites open for Independence Day Weekend but I want to get their early on July 3rd, after shopping in Old Forge or Speculator, depending on where I start out my week. 🌩 A bit worried about severe weather on the way up tonight, but if it gets too bad, I can always pull over until the thunderstorm passes by. I am hoping not too much rain but when it’s going to be so hot, summer thunderstorms are always a definite possibility. I kind of do want to camp as far away from road noise and people, at least for the first half of the week. Maybe Pumpkin Hollow Road is another good option?
