Dennis Dixon is heading West!: New Jersey skiing

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 - Skiing (maybe) in New Jersey, visit the Neuberger Museum of Art = 365 miles driving, almost 7 hours:

Wendy and Caroline are up in Toronto for 4 days for a Revival/Conference, so I'm hitting the road for a couple of days. I spent last night in the Rodeway Inn in Kingston, NY (redeemed points = FREE!).

Wendy and I were visiting a friend Scott out in Jackson Hole last September. He was telling stories, and one stuck in my head: there was a guy last winter, looking out-of-place while waiting for the gondola to the top of Jackson Hole. Scott said "Um, you know that there are only Expert Slopes down from the top of this lift?." The guy took umbrage at Scott's remarks, and said "Well, I have skied all the Black Diamonds in New Jersey!" Well, that certainly put Scott in his place.

So that got me wondering: just how many Black Diamond trails are there in New Jersey?

Well, it turns out there are 2 resorts in New Jersey: Mountain Creek and Campgaw Mountain Ski Area. I count kind-of 7 black diamonds at Mountain Creek:

and maybe 2 at Campgaw:

So Let's Do This!!

Except that today it was 60° and POURING RAIN!! Well, I'm out on the road, and I want to do some exploring before I go home. So I headed south toward Mountain Creek. Before I knew it, I was going through FLORIDA (NY):

Why is it always awful weather when I go to Florida?

40 minutes later I was at Mountain Creek:

One hour later I had made my way over to Campgaw Mountain Ski Area:

Not a soul around, in the rain - no skiing today, Jessie Bear.

At noon, I was able to spend a few minutes at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY), and see a wonderful Jackson Pollock:

A cool piece there was "Untitled", 1963, by Zao Wou-Ki:

and it was fun watching workers (?grad art students?) prepping an exhibition area:

So then there I was on the Merritt Parkway around 12:30, so I decided to visit my old house on Tinywood Road in Darien, Connecticut:

Glad to see not much has changed.

Back on the highway, and headed home (5:30 PM). Thank you God for these Wonderful Adventures!

I'm listening to a cd I burning 19 years ago, consisting of 181 songs in mp3 format. Today's Driving Music:

The Police - Synchronicity, 1983

Jackson Browne - World in Motion, 1989

and that finished the mp3/cd. I then started with my iPod on Random (#160 up through #239):

#160 = "Walk Like a Man" by Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love, 1987