‘Daily Show’ Comic Michael Kosta Escapes to the Delaware Water Gap for Coffee, Hiking, and Home-Cooked Soup

Up subsequent is a hike. There’s Dingman Falls, there’s Raymondskills Falls. One of many largest attracts of this space, which was so new to me, is the waterfalls. There’s wonderful hikes of all totally different ranges. We will go very laborious, the place you bounce within the water on the finish. Perhaps it is as a result of a lot of my life is in Brooklyn. In New York, you simply type of overlook the ability, the sweetness, the relentlessness, the consistency of nature. The waterfall doesn’t cease. It’s simply slowly carrying away Pennsylvania granite. And I discover it lovely. It grounds me. You find yourself standing subsequent to some strangers from all around the world, simply having fun with this second of nature. I grew up in Michigan surrounded by quite a lot of nature. I used to be in LA endlessly, which could be very simple to be related with nature, and after I moved to New York, there’s so many fantastic issues concerning the metropolis. However I used to be lacking a connection to nature, and that is what I bought out of this space.

One morning, I requested my spouse to drop me off at like 8 a.m. on the McDade Path, and I simply walked the path on my own within the freezing chilly and completed within the city of Milford and met all people for a late lunch. Perhaps it is my job, possibly it is me, however strolling alone alongside the Delaware River—a really historic river, a river that is actually actually essential and symbolic by American historical past—was simply actually grounding and provoking and exquisite. And I used to be the one one there. I walked for seven and a half hours. I believe I noticed 20 deer and I noticed one man. That is fairly uncommon to expertise, and I nonetheless give it some thought on a regular basis.