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Last day of the year riding home from work at least at five o’clock 🚲

Doesn’t necessarily mean that I won’t still ride in the morning or if I can ask the big director to leave early occasionally I can leave early to ride home. But soon a lot more busing it home on the express hopefully! The authority is about to get rich on my back.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Time to blow this town, head out to Mad County come Saturday. Kind of like West Virginia but with more cows and smaller hills and no coal fields but more manure. 💩 Partly clear and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌅 There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Going to need the gloves 🧤 for the ride in.

My arm is a bit sore 💪🏻 feels like I spent the day at the range 🔫 from getting my COVID and flu jabs 💉 last night but I made up for it with a protein packed breakfast of eggs 🍳 with edamame 🟢, broccoli, onions and topped with lots of cottage cheese, tumeriac and nutritional yeast. Lunch is brown rice with lentils and even more edamame and tumeriac. 🍚 Got to have that protein to make my arm feel good. And coffee ☕ with cinnamon and ginger. Ginger and turmeric are supposed to reduce pain and aches. But I’ll be pissing like a cow in a pasture today. But then again tomorrow I’ll be heading to Madison County where they have a lot of them. 🐮

Had a mouse 🐁 making a ton of noise last night after I got up to take a piss 🚽 in part because I drunk extra water 💦 yesterday after getting vaxxed as recommended by the CDC to help with symptoms. I’m going to have to try the bucket trap again 🪤 or get more sticky traps as the spring trap isn’t working well as they keep picking the peanut 🥜 butter off it. Plus my arm 💪🏻 started to hurt a bit after waking up. Annoying as hell but I made up for it by sleeping into six. ⏰ No need to rush as the rice 🍚 doesn’t take as long as many of the soups I cook makes.

Got the space heater out yesterday. ♨ And also the heating pad and electric blanket though the later is not yet on my bed. 🛏 Only used the heating pad and space heater briefly the other night when my fingers were cold from riding home. Need to work on using some sealant tape around the door 🚪 to stop air leaks and put the storm windows 🪟 back in and lock the other windows for the winter. ❄ I think the cold season is back but just wait and we’ll have a heat wave 🌊 during this El Niño winter. ☀ Holding off on the central gas heat for now, as it’s not so cold plus the cooking each morning warms things up.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 55 degrees at 3pm. Not as cold mercury wise but it might feel colder with the wind. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 2nd. South wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Going to feel that wind riding home past Ezra Prentiss one last time before the time change. 🌬️ 🚲 A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1990. 0.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.❄

Why can’t we have such nice weather for the four 4⃣ days election weekend? 🗳 I stuffed my split ticket ballot 🗳 into the box so I’m free to head to Madison County to camp ⛺ and ride trail 🚵 assuming that I can get the day off but it doesn’t look like a problem from the work calendar 🗓.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 32.4° from the due south horizon (-38.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:07 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (243°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (250°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:47 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 6:15 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:50 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 54 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the south. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 31 seconds over today.

Got Udemy Business installed on my phone 📱 which allows you to take free online classes on a wide variety of technical ⚙ and computer 🖥 classes online with your library card 💳 at least those libraries that offer it 📚 which looks like mostly just the Bethlehem Library locally. I’m enrolled in a class on the basics of remote sensing 🌎 which is about using satellites 🛰 to detect what is happening on earth’s surface. Interesting stuff so many great classes offered. 🧑‍🏫

I survived my vaxxing 💉 and while I noticed my shoulder was a bit sore 💪🏻come the middle of the night it was worth it to know I’m significantly protected from the latest in the COVID and flu strains. Took both shots to the left arm. It was a nice walk 🚶 to the pharmacy, and no I didn’t become autistic and stab myself with a knife 🗡 or go crazy 🤪 donate any money 💵 to Sandy’s Hookers Promise. Honestly the only side effect I’ve had feels like an afternoon at the range with the kick of a shotgun. With ammo I bought down at West Virginia, lol 😂. Don’t tell Governor Hokey that. She should be just proud that I got my jabs and now the geriatrics and mentally retarded immune suppressed children won’t die, or so we’ve been told. Actually at this point the pharmacy ⚕ isn’t even filling out the COVID cards 🎴 and it was quick in an out, no crowds or this fake bullshit vaccine patriotism of a few years back.

It was a pleasant evening for that walk. 🏃‍♀️ As I won’t be riding home after tonight, I should plan to start doing more evening walks. I think I got out of the habit after riding home and being tired, after having a good meal and wanting to retire to bed with a book. 📖 But I really need to start doing more steps if I’m riding less. Got home and shredded some apples in the food processor 🍎 with cinnamon and ginger, had a good glass of water 🥛 and some yogurt in hope of avoiding the worse effects of the flu and COVID vaccine.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 38 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 27th. South wind 8 to 13 mph. In 2022, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 17 occurred back in 1951.

Normally I wouldn’t head out of town right after vacation 🛻but it’s November and rifle season starts in two weeks and it might be cold and wet next week though the forecast has improved recently. The other director is off around Thanksgiving 🦃 so that makes it difficult for me to extend that weekend plus I wouldn’t want to miss turkey day and we may have snow by then. Who know, winters coming. ☃️

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 31st. South wind around 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 76 was set in 1994. There was a dusting of snow in 2006.❄

Looking ahead to Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 55. ☀ Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Definitely an improvement from a few days ago but maybe not quite as nice in Madison County That said if I can’t get Monday off its not the end of the world. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:57 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2022, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 49 and 24 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2014.

Made it to November 🦃

That said, I didn’t really make it into the turkey farming part of West Virginia but that’s a popular activity down in parts of the Sweedlin Valley along the Potomac River with its fertile grounds for growing corn and other grains that turkeys like to eat.

Good morning! Happy November! 🦃 Best month of the year unless your a turkey aka incumbent politician about to get voted out of office, lol. Probably not a great time to be a deer or turkey either. 🦌 Cloudy and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃️

It’s been tough getting back into the routine all week after vacation. 🏢 Worse my stomach has been rumbling all week, I’ve tried to be careful what I eat 🍽 and limiting that pea soup with balsamic vinegar and homemade wholewheat bread but it’s so good. It’s been gray and wet out ☁️ which hasn’t improved my mood 😖, the politicians whining excessively on the radio 📻 about everything, my fingers cold 🧤 riding to and from work, dark mornings etc. I wish I was still in West Virginia though my stomach wasn’t much better there either. But forward. 🤮

Riding to work again this morning. 🚲 Another cold start to the day, but this time I’m planning on wearing gloves 🧤 which should help with the fingers. I might get bananas later on in the day at the supermarket on the ride home. 🌆 Still enough daylight at the end of day to ride home, but this is the last week with the time change. ⏲

Eggs 🥚 for breakfast again with all the usual things 🧅 starting with fried onions, spices, mushrooms 🍄 and broccoli 🥦 and lots of turmeric and Chipotle and some MSG. Then topped with a bunch of parmesan and nutritional yeast, the later which adds so much flavor and flakiness plus gives you all the water soluble vitamins you could need for the day. Skipped the cottage cheese today as I didn’t want to open another package of it. I was thinking pancakes, 🥞 but I am bit tired of them for now — maybe tomorrow. I do like all the all-day protein that eggs have in them.

That said, I’m more excited about tomorrow when I bake up more homemade bread 🍞 this time with oats and lots of shredded carrots 🥕 along with 15 bean soup. 🥣 If I decide to head out of town for the weekend, I’ll make two loafs 🍞 🍞 so I have plenty to eat. I might also do more rice and lentils too on the stove, and I have that butternut squash that I might want to cook, though I have still honey dew and an acorn squashed cooked and ready to eat home. 🍠

Today will have a chance of rain showers before 9am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 9am and 10am, then a chance of rain showers after 10am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 43 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 30th. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 69 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1950. 3.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.❄

Lately I’ve been having a lot of issues with an upset stomach and excessive gas. 😫 I think it might be from all the fiber and spices I’ve had in my diet lately. 🫚 I am trying to eat healthy but at times it can be hard to find that right balance. Pea soup with lots of balsamic vinger and whole wheat bread is particularly tough on my stomach, 🍲 but I do like it a lot. I am trying to drink more water with it to see if it helps, along with taking Gas-X. But it can be rough at times. And if I drink too much water, then I have to piss all the time. The good news though is that I’m continuing to loose weight and be healthier. 🍭 So far I’ve resisted all of the Halloween “free candy” that’s been popping up around the office.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 33° from the due south horizon (-37.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:10 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (244°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (251°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:50 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 4 seconds with dusk around 6:18 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:53 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 10 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over today.

Tomorrow evening I get my flu and COVID-19 vaccine. 💉 After I made my appointment I found out that pharmacists ⚕ at CVS are on strike 🤜 but at this point I’m not going to cancel my appointment tomorrow because I want the vaccines to be full strength 💪 by the Thanksgiving holiday when all the sick people start coming back in the office after traveling to visit family, 👪 spreading the COVID-19 and flu around. I don’t wear my mask 😷 all the time yet but anytime I go into a crowded place I do. And I’m still taking the stairs 🧗‍♂️ avoiding crowded elevators and burning extra calories.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 28 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 26th. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light west after midnight. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 2002.

I haven’t done an evening walk 🚶 I a while but I should try to get back in the habit especially with the time change next week and only being able to ride to work but not home due to the darkness. 🚲 It’s fine it will also make mornings brighter 🔆 at least for a while. I’ll still be up before sunlight baking 🍞 and cooking 🍳 but it won’t be quite as dark.

Cloudy ⛅ but fairly mild this weekend for the first weekend of November. Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees. 🐮 The weekend doesn’t look that wet but I’m still watching the forecast to decide if I should take off Monday and do a long weekend in Madison County including Election Day. ⛺ Camping seems like a good thing to do that day.

Looking ahead, next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:41 pm with dusk at 5:10 pm (Standard Time). Then you won’t have to look at all those silly lawn signs from the giant penis measuring contest. On that day in 2022, we had sunny and temperatures between 53 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1975.

The great autumn road trip ends much like it started in the rain ☔

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Time to get up in a bit before it’s real wet then head home. Rain showers and 46 degrees at Long Pond State Forest in Smithfield Flats, NY. ☁ There is a north breeze at 8 mph. 🍃.

Back in New York State. I decided to drive all the way back to New York yesterday from Paw Paw as I figured it would mean back tracking to get back to Interstate 99 and heading north. 🛣️ Rain is expected before day break in Wellsboro so I figured that at any rate, not worth the back tracking and the $10 fee to camp in Pennsylvania. ⛺ At Long Pond State Forest which is two hours from home l figured that the rain would start later so maybe a quick breakfast and coffee ☕ 🥣 before the rain picked up.

Figured it would be interesting to come back via 81 and see at least the skyline of Hagerstown Maryland, Harrisburg, Wilkes Barre and Scranton Penna 🌆 but truth be told by the time I reached Hazleton it was dark, and from Hagerstown to the I-78 and I-81 split in Jonestown, traffic was much too heavy for ones eyes 👀 to leave the road for much scenic viewing. People often suggest taking Interstate 81 to West Virginia but I have to say at this point I don’t recommend it. 🚙 Too much traffic, especially truck 🚚 traffic compared to the leisurely drive along Interstate 99.

Truth is though I was bored with taking Interstate 99, I’ve done it several times in the past years to West Virginia. 🗻 It’s scenic but after a while the towns are all the same. Somehow I was hoping that 81 would change things up. Same thing with US 6 in Penna. It’s slow, and long, the farms 🚜 and rural homesteads 🏡 🐐 are still the same but with fewer burn barrels 🛢 as a decade or so ago. All that plastic shit stinks when you burn it, lol 😂.

Somehow I just had it in my mind that Interstate 81 would shave miles and hours off the trip. 🚘 But it’s really not that much of a time or milage savings. And while I’m only two hours from home compared to 3 1/2 that extra hour and a half got tacked onto yesterday’s drive, 🌃 meaning several hours of driving in the darkness and arriving at Long Pond State Forest at 8:30 pm rather than before six o’clock as I had planned. I had no cell service 📶 in Paw Paw so it was just a wild assed guess on the distance to Asaph Run or County Bridge compared to Long Pond.

The moonlight helped, as did getting up and walking 🚶 around the rest area near Wilkes Barre and ultimately getting a box of five hour energy shots 🤪 which not only made me awake for driving kept me up half the night. Almost stopped and got dinner at Dennys in Hazleton but I decided I was running so far behind schedule, best to have some energy shots, hard boiled eggs and bananas and push forward. ☕ Regardless, I made it to camp safely and expect a nice drive the rest of the way home. 🙏

I was pretty wired from the energy shot ⚡ last night and it was a pretty evening with the full moon 🌕 so I stayed up to midnight.🦆 Listened to the geese well into the night honking and every time I walked to the lake the beaver 🦫 would jump back in with a big splash 💦.

Today will have showers through 9 am, then rain after 10am. 🌧 High of 46 degrees at 6am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 23rd. North wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 63 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 1946. 3.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

Coffee ☕ and cream of wheat is cooking on the stove. It’s now just the final two hours home 🏡. Probably need to get a bit more fuel ⛽ and I’m likely going to stop and get apples 🍏 at Annuto’s in Oneonta. They open at nine 9⃣ but I don’t necessarily have to be there right at nine. And maybe other produce like Butternut Squash. 🍆 They have quite the selection of farm products. No doughnuts 🍩 though, even though they were good to start off vacation as a special treat. 😋

Then get home, unpack, shower 🚿 for the first time in nine days 👃 and knead bread 🍞 and soak peas for pea soup. Maybe go to the laundromat and buy produce at Hannaford, or that could wait until Monday.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 34° from the due south horizon (-36.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:14 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (246°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 6:21 pm, which is one minute and 22 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon in the east-northeast (63°) at an altitude of 0° from the horizon, 235,306 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:56 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a north-northeast breeze at 6 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over today.

Rode about twenty miles of the Chesapeake and Ohio outside Paw Paw and then went into the village on my bike yesterday. Not a lot of note in the village that I saw but maybe I rode the wrong road. 🚲 That said, the Paw Paw Tunnel is really neat. 🚉 Not only can you hike – bike the canal tunnel when I was there people were kayaking in it. 🛶 Rode 19 miles or about three hours including breaks. Stopped at the Capacon Overlook 🏞 after driving WV 9 which is as curvy as you might expect any good ol West Virginia road to be going through the mountains. Phil Ochs wasn’t wrong when he sung about the roads would wind and wind through the hills of West Virginia.

Tonight will have showers before 2am, then rain likely after 2am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 7pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 14th. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.

Next it’s watching the forecast for next week. 🐮 I’m still thinking about a trip out to Madison County either next week or the weekend after for four days, tacking a day onto the Election Day Weekend or Veterans Day Weekend. ⛺ I know it seems like it’s coming on right after vacation but rifle season 🦌 and Thanksgiving is right around the corner and who knows when we’ll get our first snowfall and those areas inaccessible. 🌨 Winter’s coming.

Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2022, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 31 and 20 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 40 degrees. Winter’s coming. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1966.

The blog for the first month made a little over $80 a month or so worth in advertising. 🖥 Figuring th hosting and domains work out to $17 a month, its a nice little check. Won’t make me rich and it’s possible that I could potentially squeeze additional revenue by more obnoxious ads or changing the content on my blog but I want to maintain absolute editorial control over my blog. 📝 That’s one of the reasons I maintain a personal blog and don’t just do social media.

Paw Paw and Heading North 🐾

Good morning! Happy Saturday. Today I Head North! Cloudy ⛅ and 67 degrees in Canaan Heights, WV. Super mild! There is a south-southeast breeze at 13 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. 🌬️ That wind is roaring around, unstable weather coming. But I’m heading off the Appalachian Front shortly.

Up at six o’clock taking camp down. 🕔 Still quite dark out. To get a jump start on the day and limit pee breaks, 🚽 I hard boiled eggs 🥚 last night and will have two eggs for protein with a banana 🍌 for sugar and some peppers maybe later on. ☕ If I decide I really need coffee I can get some in Keyser this morning. Took the tent down last night ⛺ and packed and organized as much as I could last night, including writing much of this blog post last night. 📝

Today will likely rain ☔ , mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67 at six AM. Southwest wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1971. 2.0 inches of snow fell back in 1952.❄

Today it’s off to Paw Paw Tunnel and ultimately Maryland then onward Pennsylvania. 🚲 The tunnel, part of the C – I Canal National Park Trailway looks neat, it’s a canal through a mountain. Sunday’s forecast looks very wet, so I don’t know if I’ll bother to go to Asaph Run in hoping to bike the Pine Creek Rail Trail after a quick overnight camp. ⛺

It’s possible that I’ll decide to either do my overnight at County Bridge Campground or maybe if time allows, Long Pond State Forest in New York State. 🛣️ The later is free 🆓 and probably more on the route home, plus come Sunday it’s less than 2 hours home from there. If I do the later, I would probably take Interstate 80 from I 99 to I 81.

Or I could possibly overnight at the Paw Paw Campground, I’m just worried about of the drive in one day. 🚘 We’ll over six hours driving Interstate 81 which goes through several big cities like Harrisburg and Scranton versus the relatively quiet I-99. Really don’t want to drive more than four hours a day, with one hour play time and four hours to hike, bicycle or visit parks. 🏞

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.3° from the due south horizon (-36.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:16 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (246°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:55 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 6:23 pm, which is one minute and 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-northeast (75°) at an altitude of 6° from the horizon, 232,615 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:58 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 63 degrees. The dew point will be 51 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 13 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over today.

Yesterday, I hiked 15 miles in Dolly Sods. 🚶 Not a bad day but most of the day was grayer then I would have hoped. 🌥 Lot of haze too. Hiked in from the Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge and along much of the ridge overlooking the wildlife refuge. It was good, I visited some of the more remote places in the wilderness, though still a lot of people exploring there. Sort of hoped to make it across to the top of the Allegheny Front and maybe Bears Rocks 🐻 but time was tight with the early sunset 🌇, no overnight parking 🅿 signs where I was parked and simply the trail I planned to cross the Red Creek with – Dobbins Grade is low water crossng not the case this week. 🐸 Plus the beaver dam. In the evening around sunset walked the new boardwalk in the wildlife refuge off Freeman Drive. Headed back to camp, had a nice dinner and some beer 🍻, took down the tent and organized my gear.

I haven’t posted many pictures 📸 to either Facebook or the blog due to connection issues here but also because I’m trying to maximize my remaining time here in West Virginia. Time is precious. ⌛ I figure all next week I can go through my photos and start sharing them, bringing back memories of what was on my trip.

Tonight will have mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 41 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 11th. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1969.

Sunday will rain starting around dawn. 🌧️High near 45. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

I’m expecting a wet ending to my vacation both Saturday night and definitely Sunday for the last leg of the trip home. 🏡 It’s fine, it rained ☔ on the way down here too at least through New York. The colors probably are pretty much gone for the return trip home I would assume. Then it looks to be cold next week once I’m home. Hoping to ride to work a few more times both ways before the time change but I’m not holding out my breath for too many days next week. 🚲 Might even need to turn the heat back on in my apartment. In contrast, it’s been so warm in West Virginia that I only used the propane heater on Sunday evening and Monday morning ♨️, the rest of the week it’s been shut off and locked 🔒 up.

In 1956, Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. 💉This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months.

Then next Saturday is Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ when the sun will be setting at 5:46 pm with dusk at 6:14 pm. On that day in 2022, we had sunny, warm and temperatures between 71 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.

Already thinking next week about potentially a four day trip out to Madison County. 🐮 Probably Stoney Pond and peddle around Cazenovia and the Cazenovia – Chittenango Rail Trail and possibly some of the single track mountain bike trails at Alfred Woodford and Tassel Hill. 🚲 Maybe take off the Monday before Election Day for a four day weekend as far away from politics as possible. Or the following Friday is Armstice Day aka Veterans Day Observed, so if I took off either Thursday or the following Monday, it’s another four day weekend. I want to get away one more time before rifle season 🦌.

Last full day in West Virginia

Don’t delay, time is limited! So it would seem as tomorrow at this point I’ll be heading back north again. Days go by too quickly it seems.

Good morning! Already Friday! Emotions are very different on vacation then when doing the work week thing. Mostly cloudy and 53 degrees in Canaan Heights, West Virginia. There is a southwest breeze at 12 mph. 🍃. This morning reminds me of a cool summer morning.

I am not as sore as I expected this morning from riding Canyon Ridge Jeep Trail 🚙 on my mountain bike 🚵 yesterday. That road was so rough! And I was going relatively fast as time was going by so quickly with dusk 🌆 approaching.

Yesterday was a fun but busy one. 🚵 Rode the old rail line 7 miles and 1,110 ft deep into the Blackwater River Gorge from Coketon outside of Thomas, then mostly carried my mountain bike over several waterfalls and cliff edges up the 4 ½ miles 🚶 to Canyon Road Jeep Trail via Limerock Trail, a badly eroded old logging road.

Had a bone jarring ride to the Olson Firetower, and even more so on way back to Coketon. 🙇Canyon Road is definitely a jeep trail with several washes, lots of mud wallows and a very rocky surface. Fun on a mountain bike but very bone jarring. Olson Firetower is an 100 ft Aeromotor tower, it’s quite tall as Firetower 🗼 go and has good views from Parsons to Davis to parts of Western Maryland. Made it back to my truck at 6:20 pm a little bit before sunset.

In total, rode 22.6 miles plus carried the bike the 4.5 miles up the Limerock Trail for a total of 27.1 miles for the day. Busy tiring day. 🥱 I got tuckered in Tucker County WV!

If I wasn’t so dang muddy and sweaty I thought about getting dinner 🌯 at either Hellbenders Burritos or the Purple Café but time was getting late and the prior was packed. After stopping at Shop and Save I went back to camp ⛺ and cooked up chicken and vegetables. Maybe today I’ll do Hellbenders if I end up back in Davis.

Today will have a chance of rain showers 🌧️ especially in the morning and otherwise mostly cloudy ⛅ with a high of 67 degrees at 3pm. 8 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 30th. Might see a few breaks of sun. Maximum dew point of 60 at 5pm. Breezy with a southwest wind of 12 to 17 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1963. 1.7 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄

Heading to the Canaan Wildlife Refuge today 🐦 and maybe hike up to the Ridge Trail at Dolly Sods. 🚶 The thing about accessing Dolly Sods from the refuge is it closes at dusk with a risk of getting towed 🚧 so I need to be back to the truck by then. Can’t delay. Some depends on whether it rains. It’s raining a little ways north in Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania. ☔ If it becomes really wet I could see going back to Davis and getting lunch at Hellbenders Burritos 🌯 then spending the afternoon at the Tucker County library 💻 looking at an uploading some photos. 📸 And maybe some of the mountain bike trails in the rain. 😂

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.7° from the due south horizon (-36.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:17 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (247°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:25 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 6:54 pm, which is one minute and 25 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (88°) at an altitude of 11° from the horizon, 230,268 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:59 pm. At sunset, look for cloudy skies and temperatures around 57 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 6 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over today.

Tonight will be cloudy ☁️, with a low of 49 degrees at 4am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. South wind around 6 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1974.

Governor Ronald Reagan in 1964 delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as “A Time for Choosing”. 🎙️ Extremism is no vice seems to be the rallying call of both political parties these days probably because all most party candidates fear in gerrymandered districts is primaries. 🗳

Tomorrow will have chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. West wind 8 to 12 mph. 🌧️ Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 11am. South wind 6 to 13 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1971. 2.0 inches of snow fell back in 1952.❄

I’m now thinking 💭 about heading up to Paw Paw tomorrow to check out the Paw Paw Canal Tunnel 🚣 where the C&O Canal goes through a mountain in a tunnel. It’s a bit out of the way – further east than I planned on going but it would replace going to Seneca Rocks which I’ve done a couple of times but was considering alternative trails up that way. There is a National Park campground ⛺ in Paw Paw but despite being an hour closer to home, that still leaves a long trip back to the Albany. That’s why I might explore then head north to County Bridge or Asaph Run campgrounds in northern central Pennsylvania. Asaph Run is right on the Pine Creek Rail Trail so I could ride that Sunday if not too wet.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of showers before 11am, then rain, mainly after 11am. ☔ High near 50. North wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Typical average high for the weekend is 57 degrees.

So if I end up at Asaph Run come Sunday, 🚲 the plan is to ride as much of the Trail through the Pine Creek Gorge as time and weather allows. I don’t mind riding in drizzle, I have one set of dry clothes left by then but not pouring rain. ☔ Want to leave by 2 pm so I can be pretty close to home by sunset 🌇 or at least pitch blackness driving 🚘 in the rain. Maybe stop at Annuto’s in Oneonta and get more apples 🍏, they were good. Doughnuts 🍩 too but I think I’ll skip them this time for health reasons, lol 😂.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:57 pm (Standard Time). After all the money 💵 I’ve spent on vacation, I won’t have any money to buy shit but I might go up to the Adirondacks that weekend to burn Thanksgiving calories 🦃 and have a big fire 🔥 and maybe do some hiking. 🚶 On that day in 2022, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 49 and 24 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2014.

Fifties at night, seventies in the day 🍂

Its been amazing weather even though most of the leaves are done in the High Country but also quite quiet without the crowds. And it doesn’t get dark until around seven here but the mornings are quite dark too. But I’m enjoying it.

Good morning! No idea on the day lol, I’m on vacation. Those camel 🐫 milkmen with their fast letdown can do their thing without me commenting. 😂 Partly cloudy and 56 degrees in Canaan Heights, WV. There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. No need for the propane heater either this morning or even last night.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 27th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 5pm. South wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 1963. There was a dusting of snow in 2005.❄

Going to be another absolutely beautiful day in West Virginia today. ☀ Riding my bike about 7 miles along the Canaan Loop Road today to the Table Rock trail, 🚲 which is a mile further to a scenic rock ledge high above the Red Run and across from Mozart Mountain with the Otter Creek wilderness in the distance. Photos 📸 at some point but probably not today, see the next paragraph lol. I could drive the road but it’s narrow and steep and probably rough – and I figure I would likely see far more on the bicycle where I can stop 🛑 wherever without worries of leaving my truck parked on a blind curve. Alternating driving and bicycling slash hiking from camp every other day. 🚶

I wouldn’t mind getting back to camp ⛺ fairly early mid afternoon and laying back in the hammock and reading 📖 for a while. Just some quiet 🤫 time in the wilderness. There is so little traffic on the road and I need some down time on my vacation. Then maybe around dusk, 🌆 like after dinner, I’ll ride up to the top of Canaan Heights and watch the sun set as I ride back to camp.

I haven’t done so good uploading photos 📸 to the blog this week as often my cell service is weak and it requires a better signal 📶 then on Facebook. I have posted a lot more on Facebook and will post more when I get back home. Same thing with blog updates. I’ve been busy and cell service is so patchy. I was surprised that even in the village of Davis I have only one or two bars off service and it’s not reliable for uploads. 👆

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 35.4° from the due south horizon (-35.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:50 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (248°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (254°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:29 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 6:57 pm, which is one minute and 27 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (115°) at an altitude of 19° from the horizon, 227,069 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:01 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 68 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 40 seconds over today.

Yesterday rode all around Blackwater State Park, the Blackwater River single track from WV 32 to the park, looped back through the village and did the part of Camp 70 Road not in the Little Canaan WMA. 🚲 While Camp 70 Road is closed to bikes for the season, due to hunting season. Lots of great views l my other camera. Colors are faded but the views from the park 🏞 and Lindy Point was great. 📸 Sat down at the river front park, and then got a few supplies and head back to camp ⛺.

The only grocery shopping options within 35 miles of Davis is Shop and Save Express and Dollar General 🏪 – that is roads with many hairpin turns, no matter which direction you go – Keyser WV, Oakland MD and Elkins WV are the nearest towns with a full size supermarket each about equidistant from Davis. Surprisingly though Shop and Save Express may be small by modern standards 🛒 (1/3rd size of the Greenville Tops) but it’s clean, modern, decent selection with lots of produce and reasonable prices. In general, groceries are a fair bit cheaper in West Virginia then the same in New York. Certainly much better than what you would find in the Adirondacks. 🐮 Got the milk, ice, paper towels and coffee ☕ I needed so so I wouldn’t run out before the trip is done.

Last night was a beautiful moon lit evening. 🌃 Rode about 7 miles round trip on gravel then back another 1/2 miles on the Allegheny Trail to one of the sods, 🚲 turned off the light and looked at the stars for a while. ✨ It was a great evening, stayed up to half past ten 🔟 which is super late for me but the mornings are super dark in West Virginia.

When I got back I fried up pumpkin – oatmeal biscuits with lots of pumpkin spice and ginger 🎃 which was a nice treat to end the day. 🍪 Laid back for a while in the hammock before retiring to sleep for the night.

Tonight will be mostly clesr 🌥, with a low of 46 degrees at 6am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 6pm. South wind around 6 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1952.

In 1962, in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba. 🚀 Sounds like scary times.

I tell you all day yesterday with all that garlic and onion rice 💩 I was blowing up bathrooms left and right. I kind of overdid the spices on that one but it tasted so good when I was tired and hungry 😋 last night after drinking 🍻 a beer. Oh well I’m on vacation. I sought out porta potties rather than inside toilets 🚻 for just that reason. It was fine and now I’m over it.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, rain showers in the morning then becoming sunnier sunny, with a high near 69. Maximum dew point of 62 at 11am. Sunday, showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. Chance of precipitation is 60%. But by then I’ll be back in Penna on my way back home. Typical average high for the weekend is 57 degrees.

I am thinking Asaph Run campground on Saturday night ⛺ and then riding as much of the Pine Creek Rail Trail 🚵 I can before I have to leave, probably by around two. Which will become three. 3⃣ But the thing is I will be tired 😴 by then and with the early sunset and deer 🦌 in rut I don’t want to drive too much in the pitch black. I have clothes set out for work on Monday so I should be good on that front. Of course it depends on how wet Sunday turns out to be. ☔ I’m fine with driving in the rain but biking in the rain is less fun. Plus driving in the rain 🛻 after dark is something I would like to avoid.

Looking ahead, next Wednesday is Average High is 55 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 5:50 pm with dusk at 6:18 pm. Not many more days of riding the bike 🚲 home from work. 🏢 On that day in 2022, we had partly sunny skies, and quite warm, with mist in the morning and temperatures between 69 and 54 degrees. Albany hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.

Moving slowly into vacation 🥱

I still feel kind of sick this morning but I’m mostly packed and my goal is to be on the road by around 9 o’clock so I can get cash at the bank when it opens and down to Oneonta mid morning to get apples and doughnuts, gas up and head down to Pennsylvania by the afternoon.

Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Rain and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north-northeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 53 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around noontime.

Getting packed and having a light breakfast of hard boiled eggs 🥚, whole wheat bread 🍞 and bananas 🍌 with a single cup of coffee ☕. Maybe I snuck in a walnut and a slice of Butternut Squash while packing but I’m trying to limit watery foods prior to the road trip. That said I should be careful about dehydration more than excessive water because I’ve had diarrhea along with my upset stomach and burning throat and general sickness the past day. But I think I’m recovering.

My aunt on Facebook suggested boiling hard boiled eggs 🥚 in baking soda with the water for the shells coming off easily and I was surprised how well that worked. That’s a controversial thing but I didn’t notice an after taste and especially pealing while shocking with cold water after boiling the shells literally slipped off.

Today will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 High of 58 degrees at 12pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 24th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 10am. 🏖️ Northeast wind 6 to 14 mph becoming northwest in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1979. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

First order of business today is the bank 🏦 then maybe For the Love of Bacon 🥓 and then down to Oneonta for apple cider doughnuts, apples 🍏 and maybe some food and supplies though I might wait until Keyser WV to get most of the fresh vegetables so they last longer at camp ⛺. Today isn’t going to be a real nice day so I want to get to camp before dark but I plan to hit the hay early so I can rise early and get to Cumberland Maryland by mid morning and ride the Chesapeake and Ohio Canalway for a few hours before heading down to West Virginia. 🚲

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:41 pm with sun having an altitude of 36.8° from the due south horizon (-34.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:27 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (250°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (256°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:06 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 6:33 pm, which is one minute and 32 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south (175°) at an altitude of 21° from the horizon, 228,289 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:07 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 55 degrees. The dew point will be 50 degrees. Breezy, 20 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 30mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 48 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 46 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 3rd. Breezy, with a west wind 13 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2022, we had clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

I might be sick 🤮 and it’s raining ☔ but I expect a great, memorable and relaxing vacation with excellent weather this year. A little past peak color 🍂 but last week’s weather really sucked. I’m feeling better this morning, the protein rich hardboiled eggs and whole wheat fiber helped. Looking forward to those fresh cider doughnuts 🍩 in Oneonta for sure. ⛺ Camp might be cold and wet tonight 🌧️ but it’s going to be a quick overnight.

Looking ahead, there are 2 weeks until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 5:46 pm with dusk at 6:14 pm. On that day in 2022, we had sunny and warm weather and temperatures between 71 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.

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