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I would think that smaller birds would be more effective at killing off ticks (the one outdoor thing I'm afraid of, especially in the NJPB!). A tiny tick isn't worth the energy expenditure of bending down the head to grab it for a big animal like a goose or turkey. Flood the place with little...

I loved the NJPB - except for one thing, the ticks. I've had so many on and in me! I've been in other bad tick places, but the PB was the worst. I rarely if ever felt them on me. People with more sensitive skin may have. My brother had Lyme disease. I used to extract them with a bit of...

Right! Very good. It's in the California desert. I was just kidding. I found it on my gps years ago, and when i was in the vicinity i went to find it and took that picture. Well, it's not exactly the Champs Elysees, but I'm rather proud of it, named after me, sort of. Plenty of free parking...

A few of us guys took the long subway ride to Coney Island from Inwood in Manhattan when we were about 14 or 15. CI was still the old fashioned place with side shows, fat ladies, tattooed wild men from Borneo, and all those grifters running their phoney games. We got victimized. I remember one...

There used to be fire towers scattered around the woods north of NYC (where i lived) too. I remember climbing up one in the Shawangunks or Catskills or something in the mid sixties and talking to the fire ranger. I was thinking at the time that i wanted to be a forester. He told me he had...

I'm forgetting what's what down there, but I think that's the tower we camped not too far away from for four days in my tent in 1982...that one was not that far from Batsto, I think, and one night we drove out of the Barrens and spent an evening drinking beer in a biker bar somewhere and then...

That wonk wonk sound, and whippoorwills, brings back memories. Here is a road named after me (Pan is just my nom de plume...Larry Lief...everybody spells it wrong) that i found in the barrens:

I've got the HERE app on my phone and tablet. It gives me the worst driving directions! But I still use it more than the others because i'm sort of used to it and i've put a bunch of waypoints on it. I haven't found an app to even remotely take the place of my old Garmin 276.

Here in the desert too. Jet skis on the water too. Snowmobiles in the north. They messed up an area near Mesa (east of Phoenix, AZ), where i used to camp, so badly that they closed it off entirely. I don't like those things. I like muscle powered vehicles like bicycles and canoes. I saw what...

Small world! And I tried to get a job as a ranger at the Grand Canyon. I was supposed to be next on the list. Long story...

"So, if I my site has maps of the Pine Barrens, that would make me an "amateur"? But if I have maps of the world, then I'm a "professional"? " Yes. Yr maps r so much better than the pro maps I see (except for my underground map of Seaman Avenue that i made when i was ten) that i figured u were...

You make maps professionally then, Boyd? Long ago I thought I'd like to do that, because i'm artistic plus I liked maps. When i was a kid I made a fairly elaborate map of all the secret and semisecret and non secret underground passageways and hiding places where i lived, northern Manahatan...

I was around here 2 days ago, Boyd: https://boydsmaps.com/sync/#16/32.447166/-111.125508/hereHybrid/0/0/hereSat/13/0/0 How come u r mapping Arzona? Maybe i can ask u this question: I had Garmin GPS's for many years starting with the Garmin Model 2, then 2+ (which they sent me for free). I...

Neither. I still like to go out in the wilderness, but I have a hurt leg now and i can't walk very far, just 2 or 3, maybe even 4 (I guess) miles at most. Hills r OK tho and i have a 4-wheel drive vehicle. Give me a call when u r out this way. Guy was kind enough to give me a tour of my old...

Oh wow! I used to hike Tumamoc Hill all the time. I'd link to a video i took going up it but alas it has disappeared from Utube! Let me see what else your map covers...I had no idea you'd map this part of the world too!

So awesome. I wish i was still able to go down there and explore some more using your maps, but... driving time Tucson, AZ to Chatsworth, NJ: 35 hr (2,383.4 mi)...not that I haven't already made that drive numerous times.

Your maps are so awesome. I would have loved that and GPS back then. I was always looking at my compass and unfolding the big unwieldy (especially after I applied waterproofing to them!) geo survey maps.

Boyd - I'm looking at the pond of water by where it says Warren Grove, off Simm Pl. Rd. I was probably st - I mean borrowing - some cranberries in a cranberry bog west of there - just like a handful really - and then when i got strafed I rather frantically drove looking for water to wash off...

Huh? Wassa philly, some kinda horse? I'm from Noo Yawk.

"As I suspect you learned......." See, I told youse I'm smarter den I look! Amazing maps! All I used to have was old geological survey maps, some last updated 1941 or something. Maybe the pond by Warren Grove was the place i jumped in to wash off after that biplane strafed me with bug spray...