The last day of our trip we headed over to The Ledges in Vermont. Here is a whole site about the place.

The Ledges, named for its large stone outcroppings, is a small section of the undeveloped 28-mile public recreational shoreline of Harriman Reservoir near Wilmington, Vermont. Many forms of "The Creator's" most beautiful work can be found here in distant mountain views, clean water, wildlife, sunsets, and the unclothed human body. On any hot summer day as many as 300-400 people can be found quietly relaxing and socializing in various states of dress. This quote is taken from Friends of the Ledges

Here are some pics other people took

It is one of the largest free public nudist swimming holes in the USA. The water was really low and you could see why the place was called the ledges. The other times we were there the water was too high (e:paul,32076) The water was so low I couldn't jump off the swinging rope because you could see the rocks in the water below. I wasn't going to break my legs to swing off the rope.

(e:matthew) fed this duck popcorn for about an hour.

Thanks to the miracle of SPF 45 we still did not get burned even in the glaring sun.



Dave got our picture at there (see below) to compliment this one (e:paul,32022) from back in 2005


This year we got one from the other side too, lol.



There are hundreds of naked people at the ledges, so it wasn't weird at all. That is till some really tan weirdo asked Dave if he was our Dad. When he said no, he asked if he was our uncle, then our grandfather. What a freako. I wish you guys could have seen his creepiness.

Once again we were the only people under 35 accept for one other guy who was 24 and really quite a nervous fellow. There were evn many people in what appeared to be their 70s-90s. I find it amazing that people have the courage to walk on treacherous rock trails naked with a cane.

Lesbian Straight guy thing.
While sick today I was reading pop culture articles instead of programing for once and came across this article written by a lesbian about the bond between straight guys and lesbians Call me closed minded but I always kind of thought lesbians hated men. I guess I was wrong. She also mentions the lesbian shift from owning cats to owning dogs in the 90s. I never thought about that either. My favorite part of the article was her way of describing the hetero-female homo-male relationship as, "The love that never shuts up."

San Francisco recap
I still cannot believe (e:jacob) was there and we did not see each other.

(e:matthew) really likes escargot


I really like everything else


This fish was so fucked up. I guess they all flip like this as the grow up. Probably still tastes good with garlic butter.


Scared (e:matthew)


Here is some ice on Lake Erie as seen from the plane.


Here is sheridan park


And strawberry island


Some more pics from the trip.

(e:matthew) and I spent most of yesterday in the park. We walked from Buena Vista park down Haight street to the golden gate park to the ocean and all the way back.

How did graffitti get in the electric or phone box or whatever this is.


Here is the city view from twin peaks.


This is where (e:twisted) often visits estrip.


This flower in the park smelled so sweet. I want to know what it is.


A pretty twisted branch.


Another pic of flowers at golden gate park. The viewfinder in my camera makes purple look blue so I thought it was not taking pictures of purple/pink things properly but it is. Just that they show up blue in the viewfinder.




(e:matthew) taking pictures




This pine cone was so large and heavy. It is hard to tell in the pic.


This tree trunk over water was almost the death of me. I ran across it and then got scared and sat down as it was high up over water. Then I had to shimmy the rest of the way.


When we got to the beach we ate yummy food.




A cubby hole in the woods. I thought (e:terry) would like it.


Next to Buena Vista Park is this house that resembles ours accept for theirs is smaller but has a grander entrance.

Here are some of the pics from San Francisco in no particular order.

Okay, this one was before the trip. I finally cut off my hair. I feel free. There was a video of the process but unlike the old days of the smaller audience I think it is no longer appropriate.




there was this magazine on the plane with furniture in Nice, France that make syour whole house into a rock garden. I want it so bad.




(e:matthew) really did not like flying. The two hours of severe turbulence didn't help. I was liek the plane was going to rip apart. My neck hurt from the stress of thinking I was gonna die plus the jarring motion of it whipping around. We didn't even have service or sound for like 2 hours.




People bring their dogs and cats on planes in their backpacks nowadays. As an alergy sufferere this makes me mad.


I thought Dave Doyle would like this. I know he likes messed up signs.


This one too.




On Saturday (e:hodown) arrived


Here is the goldengate bridge


These boat houses cost more than double the cost of the mansion.







Alcatraz from telegraph hill.


Yummy Seafood














Lots of no dumping signs with junk in the grates.




At the conference today I was scared that an earthquake would crash down the part I was in.







A delorian maybe?


I love Aroma Tea Shop at 302 6th avenue






(e:hodown) already opened up a restaurant here.


Lombard street is twisty


Do you think the workers really get the $1 surcharge per plate? No where else had one.


From North of the bridge





This is the Palace of Fine Arts. I felt at home being a master of fine arts.


(e:twisted) had lots of yummy snacks for us.




this pic of (e:matthew) is for (e:terry)

We spent two days at Vermont's Townshend State Park between places.

The moss was crazy at Townshend Park in Vermont


They also had lots of posion Ivy that I avoided carefully and sucessfully.




We got to camp right at the edge of the stream




The tree above our tent was so tall, it is hard to imagine with the picture.


Here are some video impressions of what is what like.

See the brook babble.

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Hear the fire crackle

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relax to the creek

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We started out in the adirondacks at Jabe Pond like last year (e:paul,3494) . It wasn't too warm most of the time but we had lots of fun canooeing, chopping firewood, feed chipmunks, etc.

This bird is called a loon. They are so crazy and make noises like coyotes all night long. Jabe Pond is very full of them.


They sound like this.

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Here we are enjoying the campfire at night.


This is the view from campsite onto the pond


We built this makeshift shelter to protect us from the rain


Here I am collecting lots of firewood. It was an island so we were kind of limited but I figured out a way to lasso the dead sticks off pine trees using a medium size rock tied to a rope.


It got real foggy on the rainy days but it wasn't too cold.


Stabbing tree stumps


Lots of naps


Getting crazy about something


(e:terry) got crazy too


Sitting in the shelter for more rain protection


Sleeping when the sun came out again


(e:terry) cooking something yummy


Somebody likes to take lots of pictures of (e:terry) and it wasn't me. Notice the datestampless pictures.
















The campsite


Rowing Home



The naked pics - just stop looking if you are not wanting to see them.

Our friend Dave is an avid nudist and every year we go on vacation with him. At first I didn't believe there were so any nudists in the world but it seems he finds clusters of them everywhere.




Here I a looking really serious for a naked person. I don't know how that happend.



What is (e:terry) doing in this picture


Nice reflection








Vermont has lots of swimming holes and apparently, there is not a law against nudity in Vermont. The one place called the Ledges is in Vermont on public land

It is a giant swimming area in the resevoir of a dam. There are lots of people here of all ages and both sexes.





The other place is Rock River. It is more gay.

I am o top of whiteface mountain, there is a hint of technology.

So a lot of my friends think that I obsessively document my life. I am really just trying to make up for lost time, when I didn't take record of anything. Lots of the most exciting years slipped by without even a picture. In fact during the time I traveled around the world the most, I didn't even have a camera. One place that I really regret taking no pictures of is Barcelona. It was perhaps my most favorite place on earth, although it could be the fact that it looks so strange and I had lots of drugs and lot of free time. Has anyone else been there?

Luckily someone else went on vacation there are took lots of pictures . Moreover, they left their pictures directory open on the web and it got indexed. If you search throught the pics enough you will find not only great pics of Barcelona but really cute finnish? girls, most likely the ones on vacation that took the pics.

At Parc de L'Espanya Industrial I got really high on mushrooms and watched a man get beaten with a baseball bat from across the water. I remember wanting to help but I was on the other side of the water and I was trashed. I think the man was really critically injured. I learned to not hang out in sketchy palces at night time after that.



I guess I am not really missing anything other than pictures of the people I met along the way.

Thankfully, it was overcast today. I managed to keep my sunburn under control. We saw some really pretty geology mixed with some ugly people, seems like a typical mix here in vermont. Once again, (e:matthew) has tons of nice pics from the scenery.

I still have no cell service. If you have t-mobile don't think about moving to vermont till your contract is up. I will be home July 9th for anyone looking to get ahold of me.

--update I finally got some service in MA.


Along the way, we found wifi in Brattleboro, VT near this mailbox. I love finding wifi networks in random places.

Dummer and Dummerston We ended up at some little state park. The land was nice and it was only $14 for the four of us. They had showers but I couldn't shower because I was too burned from the sun yesterday.



The bad part was the rain. It rained last night and I had my only shoes outside the tent. They were out there because someone had used the bathroom and shat on the floor and as fate would have it, I stepped in it. So now I have wet, although clean shoes for the rest of the rainy trip. (E:matthew) 's only pants got soaked too and now he is wearing short and getting eaten alive my mosquitos.



The weather is still expecting rainstorms from now till the end of our trip. I hope something changes.

[size=m]Computer to bird communique [/size]



The birds here have learned to interface with the computer. (E:matthew) records them and then plays it with the laptop outside. The bird respond and eventually come check out the computer. It is very cyborgian. Who needs to learn the bird calls or buy wooden bird callers anymore. (E:matthew) has great pictures of this.