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January 1, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy New Years Day 2020 🎉 ! It’s a new morning in a new decade. Next Wednesday is Bubble Bath Day 🠼򏀮 Partly cloudy, breezy and 29 degrees at the Cole Hill State Forest in Berne. ❄ More clouds then sun but when the blue peaks through its pretty nice with the ice on the trees. Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the west 🌬 . The current wind chill is 17. Things will start to thaw out at around noontime. 🌡️ A chilly but kind of pretty morning when I got up briefly to do my business 💩 outside.

So we made it to the new decade. 🎇 I guess that should surprise no one, it’s just another stepping stone 🗻 in the great progression of things. One year closer to all hell breaking loose with climate change. That said, it was kind of neat to spend New Years Eve in the wilderness especially with that very brief winter thunderstorm. I wish it had been a little colder when I set up camp though as things were a bit sloshy 💧for a while until the mercury dropped. Made for the sled sliding well with the gear. Everything is frozen solid this morning though.

Coffee with egg nog ☕ is good on this first morning, which is a bit chilly but not too bad. Like anything it’s all a matter of how you choose to dress. 👚 Of course half the winter I keep my apartment at fifty degrees to save on the heat so I can’t complain that much about 29 degrees in the wilderness, sitting next to the propane heater. Gotta save money 💵 so I can burn it in my is jacked up truck.

A new decade with new challenges but I’ll embrace them as they come. 🎉 Always keep on learning and saving for a better tomorrow. I think by 2030 I’ll be much closer to owning land and finally getting to a better place to live with more freedom. 😍

An off grid property like a hunting camp way out in the country without running water or electricity on 40 acres is a lot more affordable than one might think 💭. Certainly a steal compared to the plastic houses 🏡 the suburbanites love. Taxes are so much lower in a place like Missouri too. I bet when you generate your own power with solar, haul your own water, heat with wood you chop your own self and meat you harvest yourself, you are a lot more conscious of waste. ♻

Only a few more weeks of plastic bags 👝 at the supermarkets. I have some cloth bags I got from work I’ve been saving for some time to use when the new law goes into effect. I’ll just need to make sure I reserve them for shopping purposes 🏪 and not bring them to work with lunch or carry them out to the woods with gear for camping ⛺. I used to use reusable bags a lot more years ago, but stopped because I never had them with me. I was thinking this morning how I’ll miss them for camping – so convenient for carrying gear, keeping things dry and storing camp trash until it’s burnt 🔥. I bought paper rather than Styrofoam bowels for camping this time – they’re actually a lot more durable in the pack, don’t smell nasty when they’re burnt and the more I learn about Styrofoam the more nasty I realize it is – especially the blowing agents and climate change. They’re not that much more expensive. 🍚 Now I get that there isn’t much of a difference between paper and Styrofoam in a landfill – waste of all types barely break down in landfills but that’s fine because I don’t want tend to burn my camp trash.

Back from dreaming to the forecast for today. New Year’s Day 2029 will have a slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 35 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 15th. West wind around 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 57 was set in 1966. 9.2 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 24.3° from the due south horizon (-46.5° vs. 6/21). Still got a ways to go before the sun is high in the sky. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:48 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 Might actually be a good time to take some pictures this afternoon, especially in the hill towns with all the ice. The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) starting at 4:30 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 5:05 pm, which is 50 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:41 pm. At sunset, look for possible snow showers 🌨 and temperatures around 32 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 21. ☃️ Breezy, 16 mph breeze 🍃 from the west. Today will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, an increase of 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight, that is for the New Years Day Eve fondue my parents are having will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 22 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 4th. I’m ready to skip ahead to March. Saves on the heating bills, says the boy who puts $60 bills into the tank of his big jacked up truck but hates paying $80 for heat and electricity. ♨ Maximum wind chill around 17 at 3am; West wind 6 to 15 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1970.

This afternoon having cheese fondue at the parents house 🍲 as their annual New Years Day celebration 🎉. Always a fun way to toast in the new year. Kind of hard to believe it’s already 2020, seemed like we were celebrating 2019 only a few days ago. Last year went by so fast.

Rain and snow this weekend but not really cold. 💦 Saturday, rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday, a chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

This next weekend is a stay at home weekend except for the Save the Pine Bush meeting and maybe hiking in the Pine Bush before it. 🚶 I doubt they’ll have enough snow to ski 🎿 there. But that’s fine. The Pine Bush often is just as pretty without snow than with it.

🌹🌻🌼Only 78 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

I know, what a joke 🃏 with the flowers 🌷and calendar 📅 spring. I mean by then you might see farmers in Alabama posting pictures of happy cows 🐮 grazing on grass for the first time but it’s still a month or five weeks until you’ll see any real green in outlying parts. Still it gives me something to look forward to. I have certainly camped a few times on the first day of spring.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Bubble Bath Day 🧼 when the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm with dusk at 5:11 pm. On that day in 2019, we had cloudy, mild, rain showers and temperatures between 41 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 60 back in 2008.

December 28, 2019 Morning

Good morning! Today 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆. It’s going to be a while before the 8:30 sunset returns but slowly but surely creeping towards black fly season. In the mean time, Three weeks to Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯. I’ve always been quite partial to honey. Bee 🐝 keeping is a big hobby for a lot of people. Good for the flowers 🌸 and orchards too. 🍎And a good source of year around sugars in much of the country. Drizzle and cloudy and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. 💧 There is a northwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃.

Right now it’s kind of a dark and gray morning. ☁ A few rain drops here and there. Supposed to clear out later but I’m still a bit hesitant to rush out. I get tired of these gray and cold days in the woods. I decided last night to pull the plug 🔌 on the Finger Lakes trip though I think I will camp out in Madison County today and visit Glimmerglass State Park. Supposed to clear out later and be a nice mild night and it looks like it’s snow free out that way from both the radar and webcams in Hamilton. Last night I was thinking about going to the Adirondacks but I don’t really feel like camping in the snow ❄ again. Plus while they don’t have a ton of snow up north, they had a fair amount of snow a few weeks ago which can mean snow banks hardened to ice. It’s going to be warm enough that I don’t think I’ll have to pitch a tent 🎪.

This mornings weather is kind of a bummer 😐 but it promises to change. I’m kind of slow rolling 🍥 getting out of town to see what really happens because if it’s going to be gray today and tomorrow, I might as well not waste the $50 in gas. ⛽ It’s warm enough for sure but gray and windy. I do like the rural landscape, small towns and farms along US 20 🚜 but I’ve driven that road too much in the fog 🌁 and rain.

I am fully packed except for my gun and personal care supplies 🪒. I am just waiting on the sun but not for much longer. Hopefully it will come out soon and make for a nice drive. I don’t want to get out there too late lest the road is closed and I have to camp ⛺ somewhere else. It should be good though – I will get to test out my gas lantern 🏮 tonight to see if I have properly restored it after cleaning and see how the LED lantern works before I’m hot tenting later in the winter.

Today will be mostly sunny later 🌞, with a high of 44 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 26th. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1982. 7 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

The sun will set at 4:30 pm with dusk around 5:01 pm, which is 42 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of 25 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 26 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 4th. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1933.

I checked the oil in the truck 🚚 and it was good. Maybe that’s because it’s on a bit of a slope from the ice on the driveway but at any rate it’s not real low. I haven’t driven that many miles since my November oil change. The accessory battery bank 🔋 is lower than I would hope but the alternator will charge that up. This morning I changed the starting battery disconnect voltage to 13.2 volts up from 13.0 volts so hopefully this will keep the accessory battery bank healthier even if it means I’m dumping slightly less excess charge into the starting battery. The relay is engaged at 14.2 volts on the solar panel, which I increased on Christmas Eve 🎄

Lyme disease seems to be bothering me again. 😟 I had a bad headache this morning and I’m a bit sore in my knee and elsewhere. 💪I’ve heard that it’s not uncommon for Lyme symptoms to stick around for a while after the antibiotics although for a while I was feeling good but kind of slipped downhill after the doxcycline ran out. I used to think it was only girly people got chronic Lyme 👧, but people I know who complain about Lyme haul feed sacks all day, shovel manure and get pushed around by cows 🐮 all day long and then own more guns than I do 🔫 and aare hardly weak. I might go back to the doctor on Monday or Tuesday 😷 but I really hate to go unless I’m truly sick and not just a headache. And maybe I’m just getting another cold.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 when the sun will be setting at 4:50 pm with dusk at 5:21 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 35 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1973.

September 2, 2019 Morning

Good morning! Happy Labor Day 👨‍🏭! Kind of a rainy, wet Labor Day although things seem to be improving. I made some coffee up ☕ and are finishing taking down my campsite. I took down the flags last night and my truck cap stayed pretty dry last night despite the intense rain we had for a while. 💦 This campsite is well drained so the rain wasn’t really an issue.

This Labor Day morning is cloudy, damp and 57 degrees at the Perkins Clearing Easement. ☁ There is a south breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 57 degrees. Not going to be a real nice day but it looks like the rain has let up and the skies will clear around 7 pm.

Labor Day will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 5pm. 🌦 High of 64 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 2nd. Maximum dew point of 61 at 2pm. 🏖️ South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of Perkins Clearingprecipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became sticky as the day progressed. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.

The sun will set at 7:31 pm with dusk around 8:00 pm, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 58 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 52 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 14th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6pm. West wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 73 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1976.

So Labor Day Weekend has come and gone. Well at least the camping ⛺ part of it once I finish taking down camp. I am in no rush at any rate. I might go for a walk 🚶 at the Speculator River Walk before heading home 🏡 but then I’ll be home. Four weeks from now I’ll be West Virginia, 👍as I’m doing my road trip a week earlier this year as usually the colors are done by Columbus Day Weekend in the high country and because I’m house sitting as my parents house the following week. 🐶

The camp stove continues to work well with both burners ♨ and I’ll replace the broken chair 🚮before the next time I camp. 💺Need to get propane, especially now that I know they don’t sell it at Tractor Supply 🚜 in Amsterdam. That said, there were plenty of other places that sold propane, but I skipped it and I made out okay, although I’ll need it for the next trip.

I could have gotten propane at Frank’s Gun Store on the way up here but I’d probably end up buying yet another gun 🔫 and honestly I need to save some money as my car insurance is due at the end of the month. 💵 I thought about switching insurers but I’ll probably just drop off my insurance reduction certificate from the class to State Farm. I like the coverage and rates of Progressive but it’s a pain figuring out all the details of the switch. 🔎 The difference in price for equivalent plans isn’t that great.

Probably cheaper to get propane at Tractor Supply, it’s a loss leader for them to sell more cowboy hats 🎩 and in my case more Carhart shit that I just got to have. But self restraint is possible in hopes of a better life tomorrow in a freer state. ✅ Gotta have the AR-15 to ventilate that garbage burning barrel, when you live out in the sticks in a red state. How else are you going to have fun putting holes in your barrel?🛢🔫

Changing topics, I need to get a better shovel. It’s hard digging through the roots to bury the poop at the end of the camping trip. 💩 A troel works but it’s hard work. While the bucket shitter means I’m only digging one hole, I like digging a deep hole because I hate finding toilet paper flowers in the woods. I guess I should separate out the toilet paper and burn it but as long as it’s buried deep enough with the bacteria from the poop it should rot away quickly. I bet the local hardware store would sell a small spade ♤ for such purposes.

Cool next weekend with temperatures running 15 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 63. Maximum dew point of 49 at 12pm. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 59. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees. Probably won’t be so cool back in Albany but hardly swimming weather at any rate. I might hunt next weekend 🐀 at a local state forest 🌲 but I doubt I’ll head out of town for a few more weeks. I like traveling but becomes a lot of work after a while and there is a lot of things I could be doing closer to home. 🐢

Plus all that beer drinking 🍻 around the campfire 🔥 probably ain’t that healthy for me or my finances. I returned 107 beer cans from camp to Shoprite the other day. ♻ It’s all from camping because I don’t drink at home. I don’t always eat the healthiest crap up at camp and maybe have a smoke from time to time. 🍴 Camping is fun but maybe too much fun at times.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Columbus Day 🛥️ when the sun will be setting at 6:27 pm with dusk at 6:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had cloudy, mist and temperatures between 72 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 63 degrees. We hit a record high of 89 back in 1963.

May 9, 2019 Night

Good evening! Rain showers and 57 degrees ☔ Breezy, ️18 mph breeze from the south-southeast 🌬 with gusts up to 29 mph 💨💨💨. You can hear the wind blowing around. The skies will clear Saturday around 2 am.

I went over to John Wolcott’s house for a while to keep going through his files. 📂 I found a few interesting tidbits and a lot of other random stuff that both of us struggled to figure out. Never know what you will find in the archives. I’m more interested in contemporary history although lately I’ve not seen much of that in the boxes.

John was saying Another Save the Pine Bush person is donating their family land to conservation. 🌳I think that’s a wonderful thing to do. If some day I own 50 or 100 acres of a mountain somewhere it would be nice to donate it to a state forest preserve after my time has gone and the house is burned to the ground and the foundation backfilled in. It’s not like I’m going to need it when my time is thru.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 52 degrees at 3am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 30th. South wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 1958.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 39% illuminated with the moon setting at 12:58 am. The moon will set at 1:00 am. The First Quarter Moon will be tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies. The Flower Moon 🌝 is on Friday, May 17th. The sun will rise at 5:38 am with the first light at 5:07 am, which is one minute and 11 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 33 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 15 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 5pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 66 degrees at 5pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 5th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 4pm. South wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. I think the Western Adirondacks may have more. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1970. 5.0 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

I decided to call off the weekend trip. Saturday may be half decent but the inch plus of rain we may get tomorrow – especially in the Western Adirondacks – doesn’t sound real nice. ⛺ Unless a campsite is well drained, it’s going to be saturated as will all the wood for burning. 🔥 I am a little worried about the campsites at Stewart Landing being really wet, as I don’t think they are particularly well drained and there always is some big mud puddles back there, and honestly the ground is not really firm as snow has been gone from that area less than a month now. Plus parking tomorrow in the city with the tulip festival 🌷 would be a female dog 🐶.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 62. Northwest wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Saturday doesn’t look bad but the woods will be so wet. Maximum dew point of 41 at 6am. Maybe I could hike Platte Kill Road in West Saugerties through the gorge? Sunday, a slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 68 degrees. I’ll take it one day at a time I guess. I’m hoping now for better weather come Memorial Day Weekend.

I’d love to have a big ass fire 🔥 and drink some beer 🍻 but things can wait until Memorial Day Weekend. Probably black flies will be bad that weekend ant 🐜 but that’s what staying up late is all about. Hopefully the ground will dry out by then. If

After reading that Bloomberg article 📰 on wealthy hermits without wills I’m actually kind of fascinated by the topic – and hermits more generally. I know that I at some point should write a will 📝, especially as I acquire property and would like it eventually to be public land 🌲for hunting and recreation. I really like the idea of the simple life, living in the backwoods without all the material crap of modernity. Maybe a 4×4 truck, al tractor 🚜 and an ATV but duck a television 📺 or home internet.

In four weeks on June 6 the sun will be setting at 8:30 pm,🌄 which is 25 minutes and 38 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 72 and 48 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 75 and 54 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1925.

I am thinking now about a June trip to Moss Island. 🌼 It will be warmer than and maybe more wildflowers at that point. I believe Green Acres dairy bar 🍦will be open and I can grab a burger 🍔 after hiking and then camp ⛺ up on Piseco Powley Road and if it’s warm enough out cool off in the potholers.

Looking ahead, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 1 weeks, Summer ️⛱️ is in 6 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 8 weeks, August 🌻 is in 12 weeks and Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆 is in 21 weeks.

Nice morning in the wilderness

A nice morning in the wilderness.

Sitting back listening to the birds, watching as the sun climbs higher in the sky and a beautiful day gets underway. No bugs, just a moth and a dragon fly in the distance pollinating flowers while a red tail hawks soars above. Not a cloud in the sky, deep blue beauty as the sun climbs over the tree line.

Camping at Duck Pond

On the maps of Burnt Rossman, and in the plan for this area, there is a primative campsite. While unmarked there, there are two developed campsites along the pond with stone-built campfire places, and some places where horses have been staked down in the past.

Duck pond which is mostly a swamp, is quite pretty in the evening. The bugs really weren’t that bad.

Cleaning up after dinner in the evening.

The wildflowers where in full bloom in late June when I was camping out there.

Near the campsite is a monument commemerating Charles Hopkins, the first Forest Ranger who maintained these 13,000 acres of state land.

In the morning, I drove south toward Blenhium on the rather rough part of the Duck Pond Truck Trail, which becomes much rougher after Duck Pond.

While I camped out there all night, I only saw one car in the morning driving by.

Here is a map of Duck Pond at Burnt Rossman.

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Sugar Hill Firetower & State Horse Camp

The final night of my Finger Lakes Trip I spent the night up at Sugar Hill State Forest, a series of 9,500 acres of state land, popular for horse owners. This parcel has two main camping areas, about 90 miles of horse trails, 3 lean-tos geared to equine users, and one nice new lean-to that is accessible solely by foot.

You don’t see signs like this located in downtown Albany.

This is all conveniently located about 15 miles from Watkins Glen, at the headwaters of Townsend and Glen Creeks that make up the water that flows through the Glen.

While I didn’t spend a lot of time going around and grabbing pictures of the Horse Camp, I did take some pictures and have some from when I visited this area during the previous summer. This was in part because the last day was rather gray, with heavy rain at times, and I was frankly quite tired.

There also is a firetower at the main horse camp area, which is filled with RVs, horse trailers, and horses during the summer weekends. This is shown below:

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Here is the fire tower:

Here is the main horse camp, with new bathroom facilities including flush toilets. This was installed two years ago due to the popularity of the horse camp and contamination concerns by the overuse of the conventional pit privy.

Horses tied up. I took this last year, when they where still building the replacement bathroom for the pit privy, and therefore the porta-potties.

Some wildflowers noticed along a short walk…

A bed of fog over Kueka Lake from the Firetower from last year.

Thunder clouds approaching from the west from the Firetower. It was not of course thundering when I was on the tower. I’m not that stupid.

Descending the firetower, looking east towards Seneca Lake.

Rather then camping at the main horse camp, where there where several people set up with horses, I decided to camp at the lower area, which is much less popular, but as nice if not nicer.

They still have lots of things for the horse owner to use.

In the evening it started to rain. It didn’t bother me much, as I had the tarp over my truck and the picnic table, and thanks to the cement base under the table, there was no mud or muck to get kicked up.

This was my camping arrangements, as seen in the morning. Not bad, especially for a free campsite.

Making some coffee in the morning. I drank an incredible amount of coffee during this week.

Where I camped, after everything was all packed on up.

Farms from off Six Nations Hill in the rain, looking south.

Maps from the DEC of Six Nations Horse Camp:

I drove the following route on Day 3 of the Finger Lakes Trip, in yellow. The loop is where the firetower and main horse camp is. Following the green line due south, takes you to the southern horse camp where I spent the night camping.

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Day 4 I visited Corning and checked out Big Flats, which is now unfortunately little more then suburbanite crap. Corning was kind of neat, except that it started to pour when was down there. I then drove down to Sayre, PA, and through northern Pennsylvania so I could pick up some fireworks for the forth of July. I probably could have come right back into the state, but I certainly didn’t want to be followed by undercover cops, with my fireworks (yes, I’m a little paranoid).

Rural Pennsylvania was quite pretty, except for the heavy rain and the fact that Route 706 was so damn narrow and twisty. When I got back to NY, I really appreciated how much better our state’s roads really are. I drove back via I-88, occasionally hopping back on Route 7 for some additional variety to my trip. I got home around 4 PM.