The Chicken Has Left It’s Coop  🐔

It was a good thirteen days at that campsite om Chicken Co-op Road, not sure when I’ll be back out to the Finger Lakes at least in the next year or two. The days of grass and grass puppies has come to an end.

After taking down camp 🏕️ I drive over to Henry K Smith Woods in Trumansburg to walk around an old growth forest. 🌲It was nice but I should have looked at a map 🗺️ before driving around to find parking 🅿️ on village streets  Neat to walk under those massive trees. Last thing to do in the Finger Lakes is a quick dip in the Enfield Glen, with the emphasis on quick as it’s only 58 degrees. 🏊 Then a shower 🚿 and changing and the long trip east.

I’m content even if I’m a bit nervous about the trip home 🏡 with my creaky old truck even though I don’t have any real reason to feel the way I do. I do need to stop for gas ⛽ and maybe at that one farm on NY 206 for produce but then it’s just going to be a quiet, nice drive out to my parents house then home. Nothing new but I’m so paranoid about noises and bumps I’ve noticed for years. Traffic is certain to be heavy on NY 79 and 206 along with I 88 but at on the expressway I can use the slow lane. Once I reach Ononeta I’m thinking I’ll take NY 23 and NY 990V to my parents house for an quiet trip the remaining way. I tried to not do too much coffee this morning ☕ but I don’t know.

That Willard WMA I explored with the cliffs yesterday was amazing. 🏞️ So beautiful as the sun was setting. 🌇 Sampson State Park was fun to explore on bike, 🚲 with all those abandoned military roads. It was A pretty way to end the day. Got back to camp 🏕️ cracked open a few beers and zucchuni. Breakfast this morning was just oatmeal soaked in reheated coffee with the remaining blueberries and some honey. 🍯 Remarkably good. Took camp down. So much stuff to pack. It was a good thirteen days!