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electric_blue68

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4. Visited The Catskilks several times 5 1/2 decades ago!

Reply to Woodwizard (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:00 PM

Friday

Thrn I saw The Milky Way while I and a friend slept out in our sleeping bags overnight in Monument Valley in 1979!

The full moon was up at 9PM when we turned in. When we woke up at 3AM - there it was, arcing 2/3rds in the sky over us. The amazing splendor!

Then in the mid- '80s up in the NYS countryside; somwwhat north of Goshen on 3 vacations I saw the sky full of stars. Ahhhhhh.

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