Trailer Trash and Bears

I guess you could say that Kyle and I were "trailer trash" for our first two months in the Garden State. After all, we did live in a trailer park off-post while we searched for a permanent apartment to live in. But the title of this blog post actually references another type of trailer trash - that being the literal trash in the dumpsters outside the trailer park.

And clearly, in the New Jersey skylands region, one cannot reference a garbage dumpster without mentioning bears. That's right. Bears. Black bears have populations recorded in every county in New Jersey. Especially in this area, there is somewhat of an over-population. Many times, the bears come into residential areas to scavenge for food in the trash.

There's nothing like taking the garbage out to the dump, wearing your pajama pants with somewhat of a buzz from the couple beers you had after work, and then seeing a huge black bear lingering 10 feet away in the bushes. Taking out the trash had become quite the adventure for Kyle and me.

We even managed to photograph a few of these trailer trash bears - a lasting memory of our days at the Picatinny trailer park.