Just another short excursion in the warm weather that seems to be increasing here. Nothing major. I'm becoming just a tad addicted to interval jogging... Link to full trip report: http://eseeknives.com/forums/index.php?threads/renos-rambles.7172/#post-131075
You guys are doing great! I'm putting together a special package for the winner of this months GAW! Keep the entries coming!!! James Gibson, Patrick, and I leave out EARLY tomorrow morning for Overland West....traveling to Flagstaff from N. Ga! Y'all be sure to follow along on Instagram and FB.......for those of you that are not Luddites and have social media.
I'm anti-Luddite, but no Instagram acct and I have divorced FacePlant (don't get me started ) , so ... no love for me.
Here's where I spent the day (10:00 to 17:00). Context: get to Bangor Maine. Three choices: 1) I-95 north of Portland about 2 -3 hours by car 2) Bangor International Airport (slightly larger than a crop duster airport in Kansas) 3) sail your luxury yacht into the north end of Penobscot Bay (largest on the US coast north of Chesapeake), then on up the Penobscot another 40 mi to Bangor. {This 117' made it all the way; I talked with its owner down in Belfast.) Go about 1 hour (by car) NW to the township of Garland. Biggest town is Garland Village -- PO, a general store and a dozen houses. This is northern Maine, like northern MS but bumping up against Quebec and Nova Scotia; nothing north of here but trees, mosquitoes, black flies, mountains, lakes, swamps, deer, bear, moose and crazy people. Three miles outside of Garland Village, up a gravel road -- the extension of which requires either an ATV (warm season) or snowmobile -- you get to my friend Ed's house. Partially underground (bermed into a south-facing hill). He and his wife built it (with their hands) in the '70's. Totally off the grid, solar powered (internet by cell phone), grow their own food, etc. 60 acres with 5 miles of trails. Went down there to help him harvest winter firewood -- we got a big dead sugar maple and some beeches -- then got a tour of the land via the trail system. I've decided that I want to spend some significant time there this summer practicing my bushcraft skills in hammock camps (before heading up to Nahmakanta near Mt Katahdin). The first pic is his house. The second and third are where one of my hammock camps will be -- by the brook.
This is a forum of DOERS. Im firmly convinced now. Look we made 5 pages of trips. This is so amazing guys and gals.
I went inside to get some water in the late afternoon, this lil vampire was on the window glass looking in. For reference my thumbnail is right at 1/2" wide.
Someone said, "vampire"? Note: this pic is in the woods. It's gotta be worth 10 points. (1.0 x 10^1.0) I mean, she looks numberesque, doesn't she? Like she could live in, say, a ghost town.
