I was getting ready to get into the trails and this guy pulled up and backed his cargo van into part of the trail. I drop a pin and let my family know what trailhead I’m using when I’m in Maine solo. I did the same thing here. I don’t know who this van guy was.

The trail experience was not so hot either. I think I entered at the wrong spot . But it was grown over, swamped out and full of dead falls. I found a cool downhill section but was lost everywhere else. This was Allamuchy State Park, I heard it’s good so I probably went too a neglected trailhead

Using my keen skills of deduction I concluded there are game preserves with active hunting happening in many sections of the state. This explains why the fire roads are unridden. I rode up this one on official business with a hi/viz vest on. I have no idea when hunting season is but I’m not trying to get blasted Dick Cheney style,

There’s also miles of private roads and driveways .

I think most people here are more bark than bite but why test that theory?

With that caveat out there check out this cool old bridge off a private road.

I stayed around this lake in a couple of hotels. I really didn’t know there was a Lakes district in NJ but there is, it’s in the area of by Stanhope NJ where me and Guza saw Lollapslooza 1 on different days. At my show Siouxsee was sick and didn’t perform, For some reason Skatemaster Tate announced this with some DJs from an “alternative” radio station, At Guza’s show Siouxsee did play but skatemaster tate did not make a guest appearance. I’m sure both shows had similar mosh pits with shirtless college jocks pushing each other and some rando metalheads thrashing all around, and a few mall punks with liberty spikes pogo’ing to Body Count,

Good luck getting vegan food in this zone. I found some General Tso’s fake chicken at a regular Chinese place and had a pretty busted burrito at some other place in a round strip mall. This picture is a detail of the window of a health food store. It was an old school health food store with rows of vitamins and supplements and then a tiny kitchen set up with macrobiotic quinoa, fish guts and kelp burgers with carob fig rice balls sweetened with beet juice for desert,

My brakes went out while I was going around a curve. The vacuum pump that controls the brakes on this 4×4 setup died entirely, if it had happened the previous week it would have been unfortunate for me as I went careening off a cliff.

This cow stopped by to laugh at me while I waited for the tow truck, he was like “yo what happened?” then I said “I don’t know the brakes went out. He said “damn that’s fucked up I didn’t even know that really happened.”