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Daily Mail, 28 April 2016 'Lyme disease is a ticking time bomb': Leading expert explains how life-wrecking illness is spreading - and what YOU can do to protect yourself"...

Tried to re-scan and enhance the slide...

I'm not sure what I'm looking on on that map. How far away was that from Carranza Mem.? It wasn't the same train wreck. The wreck I saw didn't seem that old and it was freight cars while the Blue Comet was many years earlier and a passenger train. I looked through my old Ektachrome and...

As I recall I parked by the memorial and walked to the wreck. It was very close.

Yes because i wrote on the slide: "22 Sep 1971 NJ Central RR tracks near Carranza Memorial wrecked cars visible on both sides of track".

A few more photos of the Plains in the '70's...

Teegate's photos above show how radical the change has been. The Plains used to be such a special place for me - the vast wide open spaciousness looking out over the low forest to the horizon in all directions, but 3 1/2 years ago it looked more like an ordinary eastern forest.

The train wreck photos were taken in 1971 near the Carranza Memorial. My avatar photo above my name was taken in 1976. That's me towering over the dwarf forest in the Plains like Paul Bunyan. Attached is another one of me in the Plains in 1990. The trees are taller but I still stand over the...

Sep 22, 1971. Train wreck by Carranza Memorial.

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...