I spent most of last week working from Shakamak, an out-of-the-way state park with not a lot to do in our summer of COVID, but someplace I’m quite fond of.
Although the roads in that part of the state don’t offer the hilly, curvy aesthetics I’m fondest of, I still enjoy exploring any heavily rural areas.
Not all of these photos are from that immediate area, as I drove to check out a Cherokee XJ I was interested in, and took quite the roundabout way to get there.
My best find this trip was Greene-Sullivan State Forest, which barely warrants a stub on Wikipedia, but is an absolute gem, with over 100 lakes, and miles and miles of scenic gravel roads.
I actually “discovered” Greene-Sullivan twice.
I went to a nature preserve called Goose Pond one afternoon, changed my mind about hiking around when I found two ticks crawling on me and realized I didn’t have my tick repellent handy, and upon examining my maps noticed that some interesting curvy roads and lakes lay just outside the preserve.
Two days later I was wandering aimlessly, saw on my maps what looked like an interesting loop I could drive, and realized once I got there I was back at Greene-Sullivan.
Anyway, great trip, even got to spend some time with my father and step-mom who have been painfully bored during the pandemic and decided to follow me down there to rent a neighboring cabin.
So, at least they got to be bored somewhere other than home.
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And on with the pics. Details in the captions because I didn’t feel like doing my usual Kinja shuffling of pics and text to get everything organized.
