2/15 Two things I have explored with the Jeep so far: One is the boundary between the City of Newburgh and New Windsor, the former being +50 Democrat and the latter +0.7 Republican in the last election. As if to manifest it, there’s a railway underpass on a street that connects these two districts, and this underpass has been closed for repairs, and it’s already been two years that it’s closed, and nobody seems to make any attempt to get going with it. The underpass is a no man’s land, blocked by construction fences. 

Also, I’m curious about places for stargazing. There is supposed to be one 45 minutes from here, but honestly: within a range of 45 minutes, there is not a single place free of trees where you could see any significant portion of the sky? And there very well might not be, at least not on any public land. Having got to the place, I did not see any free area, it was all just trees everywhere. You probably need a bit of a hike to get into any open space. – I did find, on the computer, a well-documented site that is deep in the Catskills, two hours from here, of which the Mid Hudson Astronomical Association says that east of the Mississippi, you’d have to travel to remote sections of the Adirondacks or to northern Maine to find anything darker.