Wow sounds like I should get up there with my Bike. My nephew has been holding out on me!
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You'd really like the Ashokan Rail Trail. Beautiful scenery... Three trail heads. The Ashokan Reservoir; Slide, Wittenberg and other mountains; the Esopus Creek. I typically ride end to end and return... 22 miles or so.
The WVRT has a lot of interesting things to see and it's unlikely you'd notice them all on one trip! For one you can ride over the bridge where the kid was snatched in the movie A Quiet Place.
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Thanks, I printed those maps, will have to try them in the spring.
The new section of our trail is also really nice. Noth of Lake Tonetta it goes through the Great Swamp and then behind Whaley Lake (very nice). Above that there is an old, small cemetery near Greenhaven Prison ... very interesting stuff!
The section from Lake Tonetta to Holmes Rd is 8 miles w/o having to stop for a road crossing, and unlike the lower sections, the tree roots are not breaking the trail up.
The new section of our trail is also really nice. Noth of Lake Tonetta it goes through the Great Swamp and then behind Whaley Lake (very nice). Above that there is an old, small cemetery near Greenhaven Prison ... very interesting stuff!
The section from Lake Tonetta to Holmes Rd is 8 miles w/o having to stop for a road crossing, and unlike the lower sections, the tree roots are not breaking the trail up.
No shortage of talent in and around Woodstock!
Albert Grossman and his studio in Bearsville (west of Woodstock) saw a lot of big names come through. I was aware of some of them being there. Meatloaf in particular as he trashed a dive bar's cigarette machine one night... a place I'd been a few times.
Skip, a friend in those days, witnessed it happen. Todd Rundgren
The Band
R.E.M.
Dave Matthews Band
Phish
Patti Smith
Steely Dan
The Pretenders
The Isley Brothers
The Rolling Stones
Natalie Merchant
Joe Jackson
Meatloaf
These folks lived in or nearby Woodstock at one time or another: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Paul Butterfield, Jimi Hendrix, Natalie Merchant,
Marshall Crenshaw, Robbie Dupree, and David Bowie (with his wife Iman). Henry Paul (Outlaws and Henry Paul Band) grew up in Hurley... I road my bicycle by his family's home regularly and my youngest brother was friends with his sister.
Roger McGuinn will be dropping by the area regularly when he's in the NE doing gigs... his sister in law is my aunt, the one who just moved up near me after her house in FL was destroyed by the hurricanes. My aunt has socialized, traveled and gone on tour with Roger and his wife for 40+ years. I still chuckle to think my parents were hanging around with him when in FL... MY PARENTS hanging out with one of the guys the Momas and Popas immortalized in Creeque Alley with the lyrics "McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher But that's what they were aimin' at."
This clip was filmed while he was on the same tour that had him in Poughkeepsie doing WPDH's 25th anniversary show in 1991 at The Chance. He played in Woodstock the next year (or was it two?).
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Uncle Mike, here is the Ashokan
Kids and wife enjoy it
Kids and wife enjoy it
MechanicMatt
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Fun morning at the dealership
Not the way I like to start my “fun weekend”
Not the way I like to start my “fun weekend”
Don’t think anyone has a better story on dealing with them than Uncle Mustang
When they took out his mailbox, they got stuck in the snow and he went out and “handled them”
Would like to hear the full story @MustangMike
Waste oil burner leaking?
Bummer whatever it is.
MechanicMatt
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Yep, the pump is SUPPOSED to trip when the boiler does……
Can’t wait to hand the cleanup bill to our HVAC provider
Not the stuff I wanna deal with on a Friday I’m supposed to leave early to head to camp on….
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He dragged them inside his garage and had a “Come to Jesus” talk……
You could be sitting in a dock twiddling your fingers while waiting to get loaded for over 1.5hrs. Was gonna say they haven't touched the trailer yet, but I just felt the dockplate set down. Longer I sit here the worse the traffic getting out, as I'm on the west.side of chitcago.
At least it's a nice view
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MechanicMatt
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Chipper, I am just counting down the minutes until noon and I get to go to our little slice of heaven on earth
No BS and No Drama up there!!
No BS and No Drama up there!!
On the bright side your day probably will only get better!
Sucks when stuff like this happens but life goes on.
I bet if you shoot that .405 this weekend you'll have a smile on your face!
"It was an.....ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT...ya it works every time!"Alrighty
So mailbox bandits…..
Don’t think anyone has a better story on dealing with them than Uncle Mustang
When they took out his mailbox, they got stuck in the snow and he went out and “handled them”
Overnight soak in acetone . Paint doesn’t dissolve turns to rubber so the acetone can be used again 
I'll give more details when I get more time ... there are a lot of "interconnected" info items. It was not the first time they ran my mailbox down, but this time their car got stuck in the snowbank, and I heard the crash.
That’s one of the trails at the Ashokan but not the ART. The ART has three trailheads along Rte 28. Some of the trail is on top of dykes, some on a berm and some through the woods on the former railroad corridor. It has an ADA compliant surface so it’s okay for child bikes, wheel chairs, etc.
Some photos I took while the trail was under construction.
Bridge near Boiceville under construction.
The Chinese Wall
Along one of the high berms during construction
If you google “Ashokan rail trail” there are a LOT of photos.
Tee shirt my son designed based on my concept when we were lobbying to develop the trail.
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Several year aga, a couple of times a week or two earlier someone was knocking over my mailbox with their car during the night, and I was getting pissed.
About 11:00 at night I'm watching TV, it had snowed earlier in the day, and I hear a boom. I look out the window and see the car that hit my mailbox stuck in the snowbank.
I go out and 3 of them get out of the car and try telling me they slipped off the road and hit my mailbox by accident. I tell them that is BS, this is the third time, and they are going to pay for it (this time they broke it) or I was going to call the police. They tried acting tough with me and pointed out there were 3 of them, I just responded that did not matter to me.
Some background. A few months earlier, Matt and a couple of his friends were boxing at his house, and the "tough guy" from the school had bested all of them and was taunting them to come back and box. My brother (Matt's Dad, and also a Matt) heard it and volunteered to box with the guy. Matt and his friend were afraid of the tough guy and were afraid my brother would get hurt. It only took one body punch, and my brother dropped the tough guy on the ground. The tough guy went on and on about how good of a boxer my brother was. My brother looked at him and said, "you're lucky you weren't boxing with my brother; he is better than me".
Turns out that one of the 3 guys is the younger brother of the "tough guy". So, this guy calls his brother begging for him to help them out. When the "tough guy" learns who they are dealing with, he tells them to just do what he tells you.
The 3 of them try and try but can't get the car out of the snowbank. So, I tell them to get out of the way and I push it out myself. I'm sure it made an impression.
They agree they will return tomorrow and fix my mailbox. I agree, but tell them I want to see some ID. They tell me they don't have ID. I tell them that is a shame, because now I will have to call the police, and they are not allowed to be driving w/o a license.
All of a sudden, they all have IDs, and I make them follow me into my garage so I can write down the information.
They don't return the next day, so I call the police and report them and file charges. The court calls my house, my wife picks up, and they ask if we will agree that they all be fined by the court. My wife says "No", We want to be reimbursed for repairing our mailbox.
They ended up having to pay us money to resolve the charges, and we never had any trouble with them again.
Well, looks like Matt made it up to the cabin!
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I forget who posts the train pics. Rockville bridge. Longest stone arch train bridge ever built. Near Harrisburg PA. Did a lot of fishing under that bridge.
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