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Noticing them is the problem, Boyd. Some with more sensitive skin notice them better than I do. Then the little rascals immediately head for the most obscure parts of the body to hide themselves. The ants that attacked me did that too. Right away they crawled under the straps of my sandal...

Tell your ex mother in law that removing ticks with tweezers without breaking off their heads isn't an instinctive skill. (Removing them with gasoline, however, is.) ;-)

Bobpbx - Those levered windows in the cab of the abandoned trailer were the best kind. I used to use the shell in the back of my pickup truck as a camper, but they stopped making levered windows for them. The levered windows were best because you could leave them open or partially open in the...

I'd like to see a video of someone doing that the proper way, close up. Not that I need it anymore (uh oh maybe I shouldn't have said that), but just to know what I used to be doing wrong.

I don't get ticks anymore but whenever i used to try to pull them out with a tweezers their head usually broke off in my body, and I used the gasoline trick hundreds if not thousands of times successfully. It would be hard to do it now anyway because of the way car gas tanks are built. I used...

Could be.You're probably right. I don't know what it was, but there were two fang marks on my lower leg and then the leg swelling went down and it quickly got better, and as soon as I went down to 4,000 foot altitude my breathing was OK. I've been at altitudes like that before with no breathing...

What was your technique for pulling ticks out? The best way I found to do it in the old days was to put a little gasoline on them and then they started wiggling and could be easily pulled out. I did that a lot back then. But then I read that that is a bad way to do it because it makes them...

I don't know. I didn't even feel it. I had been camping in Death Valley, CA and then I went hiking through tall grass at a beautiful spot called Darwin Falls. But than I drove up to very high altitude Bristlecone Pines National Forest and set up camp - but at night I had trouble breathing and...

Thx.

Oh my - especially the Pine Barrens! I didn't know they ever man fire towers any more. I don't recall seeing one manned since the late 1960's when I climbed up to talk to a fire ranger in the Catskill mountains. He told me he majored in forestry in college and one of my ancestors was a...

The fire towers in the Pine Barrens are manned now!?

Is there any identifying writing on it? There are Utube videos of people finding old machinery and vehicles and managing to bring them back to life.

Like others have said, amazing photographs - and how much more amazing to have actually been there and seen it! I've never seen anything like it. PS Is your first name Rumpel?

"...more exposure you get, the more sensitive you get" Might that be something related to what's been happening to me with insect - mostly ant - bites (that I wrote about in my self-deleted thread) because i never used to have a bad reaction to them? Oh, never mind...If u say "yes" or "no"...

Bobpbx - I deleted it because it wasn't about the NJPB or ticks. Sorry. Insects and arachnids are on the war path! PS I still have it and can put it back if u want, but it was mainly about ants - ants in Arizona!

I bet there's an old VW "Fastback" that's still bogged down in the sand on some obscure side road in the Plains and I know how it got there too, because I bumped into the guy who bogged it there - oh I dunno maybe forty years ago, something like that.

But green VW's are good. That great VW "Super Beetle" i mentioned above was dark green. Good camouflage in the NJPB.

I bought a used VW Beetle once and it had over 300,000 miles on it when I finally gave it away, and most of that was NYC driving too. It still ran like new but rust destroyed it. I never changed the trans. oil and the trans. was like new. I never changed the engine oil either, just replaced the...

My 1975 front wheel drive Subaru was good down there too.

Yep, plus they were lightweight and narrow and had good ground clearance, plus I cld dip a rag in the gas tank to get some gasoline to put on ticks (u can't do that with the new cars) to make them back out, tho they then said, "Don't do dat!",