military surprise

Military installations are something that Saskurbex loves. I love hospitals, he loves military stuff. On this trip Saskurbex made special additions to our route so that we could check out these locations in the states we were visiting. To our surprise there was alot left, not just a couple houses but many houses and buildings left abandoned. This was a huge shock and i think it took until the end of the trip for this to sink in. Driving streets lined with abandonded housing & finding churches, post office and much more left sitting empty was just overwhelming. We absolutely loved these locations and plan to go back.

Below are a variety of photo's from the different locations.

consider myself warned
photo by: Saskurbex

the only thing living here was bunnies, and lots of them

montana mining

Montana is covered in mines of all types. Most are very old and mined for silver or gold. Most of the mines are just remains and not much to see but we were fortunate to find a large mine with a ghost town right beside it. We did also find a few other smaller mines and went past a few active mines in the area as well. This definitely was a highlight of the trip.

Here is a variety of mines from the area:

This boulder was inside one of the houses

Saskurbex is still baffled on how this got there

Saskurbex & I in the mine

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.