Watching True Detective brought up mind pictures of real places in Pennsylvania.

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There are places in Pennsylvania that look like scenes in “True Detective”.

They never took them out for show and tell but I knew that some of my flyfishing buddies carried a firearm in their vest. It seemed like a little much, at first.

Sometimes I drove to fishing spots on macadam, then dirt roads then just wheel tracks.

The best fishing is usually at sunrise and sunset. Which means that it’s dark when you walk in or dark when you walk out. If you let it your primal fear of the dark can take over.

I don't think there are Hoodoo believers in Pennsylvania’s countryside but there are some strange people. Like the guy who answered the female Census taker’s questions naked behind his screen door. At least he would talk. Most of the “backwoods” people in Montgomery County hid from the Census takers.

The Perkiomen flows through more civilized areas of Pennsylvania in Montgomery, Bucks and Berks Counties. There were “cross lighting celebrations” along the Perkiomen with KKK, skinheads and people with swastikas. The skinheads were or are illegal drug entrepreneurs. The “celebrations” still go on to this day slightly subdued and maybe without lit crosses because of the Perkiomen Trail.

I think the Perkiomen Watershed has about as much or more drug dealers as Coatesville does. It’s one more reason some of the locals didn’t want the Perkiomen Trail and the armed Montgomery County Park Rangers and State Troopers who patrol it.

It’s said that “Wilderness is a place where you can be eaten.” If you pay attention to the signs in places like Yellowstone Park that say “Bear in Area” I believe that wilder areas are safer than more civilized areas. It’s the civilized accessible fringes of wild areas that can be dangerous.

Maybe my flyfishing buddies had good reason to pack heat in their vests.