Just Off the Desert Road
Just a few turns off the interstate, in the vast open desert, abandoned towns and buildings sit. Free to explore, there are no fences or barriers. No one else is even in sight. The sun was setting over this forgotten little campground. A place where people probably spent many fun summer vacations, now overgrown on […]
Bearwallow Mountain
Weeks ago on our short trip to Asheville I was trying to decide on a hike to go on. My decision ended up being pretty easy when I read about one that mentioned the possibility of seeing some cows at the top of Bearwallow mountain. We took the 30 minute drive to Bearwallow mountain from […]
Cape Lookout
One of my favorite places to be is on Cape Lookout island. It is part of the barrier islands that line the coast of North Carolina called the Outer Banks. Cape Lookout can only be accessed by ferry and no one has lived here since the early 1900s when the island was taken by the government […]
Unexpected Mushrooms
It had been too long since we last took a walk. Wanting something different we decided on a nature trail in a park north of town. It was a park I had spent many unwanted hours at years ago for home school events I wanted no part of. I hadn’t returned since. But I decided […]
Two Guns Ghost Town
Just off of interstate 40, formally the old route 66, is Two Guns Ghost Town. The land where this ghost town now sits, holds many stories. A group of Native Americans were killed by an enemy tribe that set fire to a cave where they were hidden. After that tragic event, the area is now […]
Seven Days in the Desert
An entire week, wandering the desert. A different hotel every night. Crazy new landscapes nether of us have ever seen before. I want to spend more weeks in the desert. I stumbled upon a cheap flight to Las Vegas, on a budget airline and couldn’t pass it up. The first evening in the desert was […]
Abandoned Mill Village
A few more pictures from when my friends and I explored an old Abandoned Mill Village, that was used for part of filming the Hunger Games movies. These little homes have sat vacant for at least forty years, while nature engulfed them. Grass grew tall around the foundation, and vines had climbed through the windows, and […]
Statue of Liberty
On our trip to New York City, we rode the Staten Island Ferry, which goes right past the Statue of Liberty. We decided not to visit the statue itself due to long lines and limited space viable to actually climb it. Plus, you have a much better view of it when you ride the Staten Island […]
Abandoned Mill Village: Inside the Walls
When my friends and I visited the Abandoned Mill Village, we couldn’t resist taking a look inside the little houses that had been abandoned for forty years or more. Many of them were painted bright colors inside, perhaps they had once been cheerful little homes. But now the paint was peeling from the walls, parts of […]
Skyscrapers of Glass
I traveled to Houston for the first time to visit my Aunt and my Grandma, who both moved there some time ago. I love traveling to new places, and I especially love big cities so I was definitely looking forward to exploring downtown Houston during my visit. I didn’t really know anything at all about […]