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    The end of Garmin Basecamp

    Oh man I'm always having problems with Garmin trying to obsolete me and my 15 year old Garmin 276c. I started using their gps's back before hardly anyone knew what GPS was, with pre map Garmin model 2 (when that one broke they sent me the model 2+ for free - they were real nice in their early...
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    You never know...

    No it isn't. Was that photo heavily shopped? The fishing pole seems to bend the sky, which is weird to begin with!
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    Godzilla sighting in the Pine Barrens!

    Where was my friend the Jersey Devil when I really needed him!? Godzilla didn't really turn my VW over but he almost did. Shook me up. Almost made me spill my beer.
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    Godzilla sighting in the Pine Barrens!

    Godzilla overturned my VW back in the 1970's. I never reported it to the police because I thought they would think I was crazy. OK seriously I just thought of one thing I never reported to the police. I was driving way back in the Plains and I was surprised to see a guy with his thumb out...
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    I've been working on the railroads

    And forty years ago in 1976
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    I've been working on the railroads

    Me in the NJPB Plains 1971
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    Pine Barren Culture; Dead or Alive

    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"...
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    I've been working on the railroads

    Tried to re-scan and enhance the slide...
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    I've been working on the railroads

    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...
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    I've been working on the railroads

    As I recall I parked by the memorial and walked to the wreck. It was very close.
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    I've been working on the railroads

    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".
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    I've been working on the railroads

    A few more photos of the Plains in the '70's...
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    I've been working on the railroads

    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.
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    I've been working on the railroads

    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...
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    I've been working on the railroads

    Sep 22, 1971. Train wreck by Carranza Memorial.
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    Pine Barren Culture; Dead or Alive

    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...
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    Pine Barren Culture; Dead or Alive

    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...
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    Pine Barren Culture; Dead or Alive

    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...
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    Pine Barren Culture; Dead or Alive

    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?
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    Pine Barren Culture; Dead or Alive

    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.
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