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1.6th
1987
Journal
197.
Eastern trip, Ohio to New York
July 17 about 50 mi. E of Pennsylvania, when
(contd) I slept at a wayside. The weather
was becoming cloudy, and the air
was very hot (90's) and humid. There
was forecast thunderstorms for the
whole of Michigan and then also for
New York.
July 18 Today I drove to the Adirondack Mts
of New York. The air was very hot
all day, with impending rain. While
I made the drive, the weather was
hot and sunny. I got to the
park boundary at about 1:00 pm. I
had "bad feelings" as soon as I got
into New York. Too many people.
Of
course, it was Saturday, but there
seemed to be no place to just
explore for birds without cars and
people driving fast. I entered
Adirondack Park at Hwy 8, drove NE
toward Speculator, New York, and then N
on Hwy 30. Much of the area
was hardwood forest, but mixed
and patchy, with pines along the
roadway--planted--and the white-
pine here was not producing much
this year and had apparently not