Here are the primitive campsites dataset broken into KML files 🏕 that are less then 1,000 points per file that are more friendly with Google Earth and similar services:
Catskills, Central NY, Western NY – generally campsites South of the Mohawk River / Erie / Barge Canal, extended east by an imaginary line to the Vermont – Massachusetts border.
Southern Adirondacks and Tug Hill – generally campsites North of the Mohawk River / Erie / Barge Canal but South of NY 177 (Tug Hill) to NY 26 to Moose River Road to NY 28 to NY 28N to Blue Ridge Road to Johnson Pond Road to NY 74 to Ticonderoga. Includes Tug Hill, Black River WF, Moose River Plains, Wilcox Lake WF, Hammond Pond WF, Vanderwhacker, Cheney Pond, and Pharaoh Lake WF.
North Adirondacks and Tug Hill – generally campsites North of NY 177 (Tug Hill) to NY 26 to Moose River Road to NY 28 to NY 28N to Blue Ridge Road to Johnson Pond Road to NY 74 to Ticonderoga. Includes White Hill SF, Grass River, Pigeon Lake, Ha-De-Ron-Dah, Sargent Ponds, Blue Lake, High Peaks, Five Ponds, Watsons Triangle, St. Regis Canoe, McKenzie, Debar Mnt, Taylor Pond, Valcour Island, Deer River, Brasher Falls, Hammond Pond WF (North of NY 78)
I was listening to NPR Fresh Air about the state of abortion in America today … 💊
I was very surprised to learn about how with the abortion pill that many people can get safely get an abortion just by taking a pill sent through the mail and that many states are allowing such pills to be proscribed via Telehealth, often by a low fee of $150 or even less. I think it’s a wonderful development, as it saves time, hassle and protects privacy, especially compared the old ways of doing things involving abortion clinics — an empowers women to boot.
I’m no fan of promotion of casual sexual activities or recreational sex, but I do think protecting a women’s right to make her own healthcare choices is important. Accidents occur even with protected sex and contraception, and sometimes not realized right away. We’ve had for decades birth control pills, as the country music singer Loretta Lynn made famous in late 1960s. Having medicine that can undo a mistake, with minimal harm to woman is such a liberating thing, that should be widely available even without a prescription at neighborhood pharmacies and grocery stores. We shouldn’t be afraid of progress.
Many people where I work think it’s odd that I take public transit to work🚌, which it can be a pain on the late nights at work when I have wait for the next bus to come. I just hate driving in the city and with my big jacked up truck I’d never fit in the garage. I’d rather just play on the phone when the driver takes me to work.
I don’t have air conditioning at home, preferring to go down to the park with a book 📚 and sit out back until late in the evening. I guess not having air conditioning is different in the modern era.
But then again I also refuse to have internet at home because💻 its an unnecessary expense and I can either walk down to the park or the library and use my laptop to get on the internet for free. I guess that is a bit odd in the modern era.
I’ve also never owned a television, although for a short while I had a cheap HDTV tuner that worked until it broke. 📺But I never really used it much and only watched non commercial programming like the PBS Newshour – which I ended up watching less and less when their primary cause became pushing gun control. Most television is a stupid waste of time and advertising is so obnoxious.
I don’t really follow contemporary culture and politics. 🔌For my job I do read my clients newspapers but I rarely read the local news. I couldn’t tell you ninty percent of what is happening in the local news. I guess I don’t really care at this point as most things are beyond my control. Sometimes I listen to NPR but less and less when every story seems to be about attacking the president or pushing a left wing agenda. 📻 I guess I do check NPR.org a few times a week and listen to podcasts so I’m not totally disconnected.
Music wise I don’t really follow what is contemporary, probably the average date of music on my phone is 1968 or about a half century old. 🎤 The music my parents listened to college. I do listen to country music but rarely on the radio, and while my share of Jason Aldean records on my phone, I do also listen to a lot of Merle Haggard and Dave Dudley.
I’m just not really into contemporary culture or what is popular today. I think it’s too loud and commercial, it’s too offensive and explicit.📢 I’m perfectly happy to live in the wilderness⛺ that I choose to live in.
