I decided to take this guy out on a bit of a test trip. See what he does when we throw him into a couple abandoned buildings. After going through the rules and the "take only photo's leave only footprints" thing we hit the road. Not in my car but in his as we decided that he wanted pictures of his car in front of some abandoned buildings & churches.
What does he drive? A Volkswagen Golf. Not just any golf, a lowered golf with thin wide tires not meant for exploring. That did not matter, we took it out on the gravel roads anyways and overall did alright with it. As for this guy we took out with us, he did alright to. Followed all the rules, wasn't afraid of much & was fun to have around. I would not take his car exploring again but I will definitely bring him along and hope that he continues to explore with us in the future.
Its hard to find people that enjoy exploring abandoned buildings & interesting sites around the province. Especially hard because most people don't enjoy it at the level i do. None the less we had a good trip overall hit all the background a couple churches, farmyards & houses.
As usual I will give you some tidbits from the trip:
1. You guessed it #1 is do not explore in a lowered Volkswagen Golf
2. Not all provincial standard gates lead to something interesting
3. Roads in the middle of fields may just lead to another road and eventually to a highway
4. People tend to leave all the creepy dolls & stuffed animals behind
5. I learnt that there is such thing as "beer", yes its called beer, no brand
6. I found out that you can use those lemon shaped lemon juice containers as a pull for a light. who knew?
7. If the door was locked on your first trip, try the door on a return trip it may be open
8. people enjoy leaving all sorts of television sets behind
Here are some pictures from the trip:
Exploring with the golf, seen here in front of a Ukrainian Church
Abandoned bedroom still with curtains
Part of an old kitchen
Old high heels & stuff from Eaton's
The golf seen here with a beautiful old homestead (collapsed on the inside)
An old dining area
generic beer anyone?
Find the kitchen + pull back the floor + find a ring + pull it up = basementthis is our "newb" seen here doing what he does best, find the basements
Old television sets!
An old homestead complete with farm equipment at the entrance
Saskatchewan license plate from 1972
an old furnace
2 comments:
Did I ever tell you that our (hubby and me) first piece of furniture was er, "purchased" from an old abandoned house? It's an old Blue Ribbon tea crate. We had been out exploring for one of our dates and came across it, hauled it down the very narrow stair case from the upper level of the house, then across a very muddy spring field. (Ya, he loves me!) We use it for a catch all for the phone, etc. The built in wood dividers make great shelves. (It's an old house on land his relatives own, so technically we weren't really stealing, they knew we were there.)
for a moment there i was worried that you were taking things from abandoned houses as i go with the "take only pictures leave only footprints" and have never taken anything from a site - but when i got the end that is more understandable, i may do the same if it was on land that my family owns - very cool though, i find the neatest things in houses, a while back i found one totally gutted but all the vents were left - those really old very strong ones with decals in them - were all left, i would have killed to have one for the future
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