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I hope you are completely rid of the Lyme, 46er. If Lyme was around for a long time they didn't even know about it. Then they named it after Lyme, CT. May 1976. Forty years ago. Camping in the NJPB Plains, lolling around on the ground. No wonder I caught a lot of ticks. Testing out my...

Just borrowed, off on a temporary tangent. I still say the old gasoline method was the neatest, and if u were alone u could even do it on yourself even if u couldn't see the tick or barely reach it, say if it was behind your ear or on your back...except for the disgorging caveat, and has that...

No, I don't think Lyme disease was a problem in the 60's and 70's, tho it had become so in my latter days going down there in the 90's. They said that ticks could carry rocky mountain spotted fever, but that was very rare. Yes I have had tick parts festering in me but like you said it just was...

Cynic that i am I read the 1 and 2 star reviews first... So then what did the old time Pineys who grew up in those woods do?

Do they have any real evidence that such is the case? i used to remove a lot of ticks with gasoline with no ensuing problem that I was aware of, but once I started messing around with tweezers trying to twist them out I started getting festering parts of their bodies left behind.

Here's a new one, olive oil. Definitely nicer on the skin than gasoline. I don't know if it would really work though. The tick might just eat it. http://olivecrazy.com/2011/04/26/banish-ticks-with-olive-oil/ I should really butt out of this topic and leave it to the contemporary Pineys who...

Re "corkscrew turn..." "Do not use a twisting or jerking motion to remove the tick." http://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0815/p643.html Yeah I figured that out for myself, but twisting is what they were telling us to do last season, or still are.

SJ, That looks to me like another one of the newfangled tick removal tricks that might break the ticks head off inside your body. IMK, Yes, good plan I think, and I usually have some nail Polish remover stored away in my truck (someplace, I think) because it's a good solvent, like for...

Yep the old fashioned gasoline method sounds better all the time. Dip your rag into the gas tank and wet it a little and apply it to the ticks and they wiggle their cute little behinds and come right out. The book I read said they also regurgitate their tick juice on the way but I don't think...

Good posts! The Pines Barrens stayed the same but after they turned Atlantic City into Las Vegas the drive down from Manhattan was different. The Turnpike was much more crowded and the down home country music radio stations I used to be able to pick up on my old dial radio were gone. There...

I am rereading John McPhee's great book again. It was written just a year or two before i first started driving down the Jersey Turnpike with my backpacking and camping gear to explore that extraordinary place in the world. This thread is eleven years old. What are the current thoughts on the...

"I recently saw an excellent trick to extract yourself from such a situation on an Australian video on Youtube. What you do is tie a branch of wood..." This isn't it but same thing...

They're doing better than the Arizona (where I now live) desert tortoise. I used to see them back in the 70's and 80's but never any more. They are now considered a threatened species. I used to see a lot more wildlife when I went hiking in the desert back then than I do now - gila monsters...

When I used to travel around the Barrens starting in the late sixties that's all I had something like that, a gas station road map (they used to be free and on racks in the gas stations). Later I ordered by mail geological survey maps. Some of those had not been updated very recently. I...

Oh, now they tell me!

That's disgusting. Years ago when I used to go down there I never saw anything like that. Never. Once, though, I met a a feller way back in the Plains who flagged me down. His car, a VW Fastback, was buried in deep sand. He said it was just stuck there but when I offered to try to help him...

Photo came out a little darker and harder to see on here than on the original. He's tucked up in his shell. Are they still around?

I don't know what they were doing in Turkey. See what one at Batsto? Great steam tractor photo above. I like steam powered vehicles, especially locomotives. Hey, I bet I'm the only guy you know who once was offered a job working in a steam locomotive repair shop! ,Just like in "Danger...

"You may be thinking of the movie "Key Largo" Oh yeah, I'm confusing them, duh. But as I recall the African Queen was parked in Key West way back then...I think...maybe. Anyway, I've never seen it in person and I've been to Key Largo a number of times since, but, as I said, the last was about...