On the reservation

[mortonfox]

Today, I went to Ramapo Reservation to seek Colubrid Cache. This county park is only a few towns from home and just past the end of Ramsey, so I could go there any time, high gas prices or not. However, all the geocaches there that I haven't done yet are more than a mile from the parking area so I need good weather and a lot of daylight to tackle those after work. This evening was a good time to do one of them. The route for this one was easy. It was a steep walk up to the reservoir level and then a bushwhack along the water's edge to the cache site.

After that, I had a prime rib footlong at Subway in Ramsey, which was a repeat of the previous day's dinner. But why mess with a good thing?

Checking my postal mail, I found a notice saying that I'm a member of yet another class-action lawsuit. (How many of these am I going to get in one year?) This time, it's a bunch of Commerce Bancorp shareholders and pension funds vs. ex-CEO Vernon Hill for alleged breach of fiduciary duty and waste of corporate assets. I don't know if there's that much merit to this lawsuit. Hill neglected to separate his various businesses and keep deals at arm's length but otherwise, he ran a great market-beating regional bank for many years. It's over anyway. The company's been sold and CBH shareholders all have TD stock now.

Comments

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

Will you be at one of the flash mod events Saturday?
I'll be at the unisphere one you told me about, even though there is a flash mod now in Northport.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

I'll be going to Northport. I already went to Queens last weekend and I heard that there will be a traffic problem near Shea Stadium at the time of the event.

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

Hmmm wonder if I should switch.
It is closer.
But it's the people...

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah... It's the reason why I haven't been going to some events in Northern NJ either.

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

Well I am going to the Unisphere after all, public transportation
If you are still out on the island latter, maybe we could meet for dinner one of these days.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

I plan on going to Flushing Chinatown that same evening.

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

Well it might work, Smrgol wants to see SPeed Racer

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

You're going to Queens twice? Or staying there the whole day?

[lenno-cornish.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Natives there?

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

No, unless you count the Ramapoughs who're actually in a neighboring community up in the mountains.

[lenno-cornish.livejournal.com]

Tell me about them, please! :)

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

There's some information about them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians

I'm actually not sure who they are. They live by themselves in an isolated community in the hills. I've driven through their area once and it's a bunch of houses, like almost any other small town. They're probably from a number of tribes in the area.