missed church

Believe it or not i missed exploring a church. In an area i have explored many times i missed seeing a spectacular little stone church! :o

Saskurbex finally found some time to explore with me so we went out on a last minute small trip to some familiar churches and decided to see this other one i had missed many times before. It was a cold night and there was a lot of snow but the church was worth our while.

Highlights:
- a working organ in the church
- making a snow angel
- trudging through thigh high snow
- getting to wear all my winter gear!
- finding something new that is nearby
- forgetting my flashlight
- finding a stone building

here are some pics:

rich in history

The area we were in is very rich in history. This said it was bound to have many churches. Saying there were many churches would be an understatement. There were so many that we had to skip over the few we had already seen just to fit them all in! None were used and they ranged from completely gutted to full of everything and even was a historic site.

Not only did we find many churches so well intact but we also found a one room school with most original parts. It was fascinating to see such a small school with these original parts and no vandalism. It pays to be in the middle of nowhere i suppose.

So here they are..

When Neko and i first saw this we were unsure whether it was alive or dead
Thank goodness it was dead - poor little guy - so young.

grid of abandonded houses

Imagine a grid road over 8 miles long with only large & small abandoned houses on it. This is what we found at the end of our trip. Unfortunately we were running out of time and did not have a chance to see every building but we did see a couple and plan to make a return trip next year.

Some highlights from the house:
- finding my second KFC bucket!
- huge homes abandoned with everything in them
- food still in a fridge
- house full of antiques
- beds with sheets still on them
- abandoned cars
- clothing still on hangers
- medications still in the bottles

states ghost towns

To start this blog i would like to clear something up. A ghost town to us is a town fully abandoned with maybe one resident. They should containhouses, school, church and maybe some businesses. One of the states we went to actually marks ghost towns on there highway map. These towns are not actually ghost towns because most have many people living in them and some are actually very touristy. Below is a picture of one of them:

This is not a ghost town. Good for the state to preserve these ghost towns for tourists but this was not what we were looking for. We decided to look for the real ghost towns.

Below you will see a collection of photo's including school, stations, churches, etc. These are mostly from ghost towns but some are from small communities.

We found this sign on the way to a few abandonment's.
I was using a gazetteer map. Checking it with the GPS there seemed to be no errors.
Ironically this sign is WRONG.