Here be dragons!
An editorial about exploring and documenting history. This comes from a forgotten (no posts since 2020) site of a Manitoba, Canada, explorer. I couldn’t find a name or anything like social media to help find who they are. Some of you are aware that Canada has never been considered one of the best countries in … Read more
I looked at the photos of barns in this post. To me, most of them are inactive, not actually abandoned. They are still maintained, enough to not be falling down, don’t look salvaged for barn boards, etc. So, they didn’t really seem abandoned or derelict. Probably someone else would consider any barn not actively used … Read more
If my life had gone differently in my earlier years I think I would have become an architect. I love buildings and all the trimmings. I’m still trying to teach myself all the right names for the parts of buildings. I go out and take photos of old buildings, mainly derelict farm houses here in … Read more
Think of every pirate and seafaring type movie you have ever seen, now pour all that into writing your own great shipwreck scene. Are you on the ship, or watching from the shore? Do you end up in the sea, holding a piece of the floating debris, do you sink to the bottom or do … Read more
I wrote Fairy Tales for Short Attention Spans, now I’m working on Horror Stories for Short Attention Spans cause it’s good to make your brain work in different directions. Write something short and twisted and horrifyingly spooky. Keep it to the length of just one paragraph with a beginning, middle and an ending. Jack was … Read more
From Heather on the Exploration Project blog: 5 Reasons Why I Explore Lonely Places I have been thinking lately about why I explore. What is it that fascinates me about lost, lonely, old, and often abandoned places? Well, I have come up with a list – an orderly way of organizing my thoughts on this … Read more