ghost town mash up

These days it seems everyone is fascinated with ghost towns. Most of the time its because these people are pickers but there are people that are just fascinated with the fact that people can leave an entire town, everything in their homes and never return. I have seen many of these towns all over this province so it doesn't surprise me when we visit a town only to find one or no one living there. a

On this recent trip after the great race we headed out to do some more exploring and found a couple ghost towns. I decided to mash them all together into one blog post with my favorite pictures. And yes, even the church with the power was in a ghost town - we find buildings with power on in ghost towns more frequently then one would except.

on my route. . .

On my route I needed gas but all I could find was an abandoned gas station. . .
If I needed car repairs that wouldn't have been possible. All I was able to find was an abandoned garage. ..
Then I tried to seek some tourist information for the area, but all I could find was an abandoned information center. . .
And on my route I passed many overgrown rail lines and one's missing signs.. .
It was an interesting route, to say the least.

plenty - o - ghost towns

Along our route we crossed many ghost towns. Since posting a picture of every single house in every ghost town we crossed I decided to create a mash up of my favorite abandoned buildings in some of the towns. Enjoy!

Highlights include:

• Underground church
• Hotel
• Abandoned playgrounds
• Large religious buildings (no pics. . . . yet)
  

past education

As per my recent post, thanks to nicer weather and dry grids I have been able to get out a lot more than usual. I decided to head out for a day and hit up some small towns I had never visited before. I went with Saskurbex with a plan in mind. Soon realizing that there was much more than we expected to find our trip ran late but we did find some interesting sites.

We found a couple ghost towns, interesting schools, large religious buildings and all sorts of things along the way. With a late start in the day the trip ran into the dark but it was definitely worth it. I have split up the posts because some of the locations are larger.

This post is about a couple of the schools we found. Larger multi roomed schools, one had been converted but its previous state still obvious.

Highlights include:

• rolling a wheelchair down the hallway of a school
  
• having a run in with barbed wire and electrical fence (thank goodness it was off)
  
• finding large industrial equipment & a mini press
  
• old water fountains
• converted room into a gym
  
• brick buildings!
• finding a shower in one of the schools