|
|
|
UER Store
|
|
sweet UER decals:
|
|
|
|
Activity
|
|
954 online
Server Time:
2024-05-04 08:24:57
|
|
|
Carmen_Sandiego
Location: MSP Metro Gender: Female Total Likes: 5 likes
| | | Re: Biggest Exploration Disappointment < Reply # 80 on 1/23/2015 10:21 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My biggest disappointment to date comes from a mother-daughter trip I took to Romania a couple of years back. There are so many Soviet-era industrial abandonments just moldering away in that country that I was practically salivating the whole time, unable to act because (A) I was spending time with my mom and didn't want to go and ( we had hired a driver, so I had no access to my own transportation. We had a bit of extra time one day, and the driver decided to take a little detour and drive past an old palace from the 1700s. We were told that unfortunately it is closed so we can't go in, but we can look at it from the road. Well, it turned out that "it's closed" was a bit of an understatement. The place had been converted into a hotel during the communist period, and it had closed down shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. When he saw how cool I thought that was, the driver jimmied open the lock on the gate and we got to wander through the grounds. I peeked in through the windows and I could see that everything had been abandoned in place. Talk about a time capsule! I even scoped out what appeared to be a workable POE, but I wasn't able to act on it for the aforementioned reasons. I think it physically hurt to walk away from that place! I really hope to get back there someday, but who knows how long it will be around and pristine? 1. 2. 3. (Apologies for the amateurish photos--they don't do this place justice!)
| |
| Sanitarium Sean
Location: Maine Gender: Male Total Likes: 294 likes
| | | Re: Biggest Exploration Disappointment < Reply # 81 on 3/9/2015 12:17 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This past Christmas Eve, I had just recently started actively exploring, and was looking for more explorable locations in my area. I remembered a river-side mill/factory building only five minutes from my house, and decided to go and scout out a possible POE. Sure enough, at the back of the building, a door stood wide open, beckoning me in. 1. While I was pleasantly surprised to find the building so easily accessible, I had already gone to another building earlier in the day (taking advantage of the holiday), and wasn't really in the mood to go in here. With daylight running out and the Christmas spirit calling me home, I decided to snap a few pictures of the exterior and come back a different time. Two or three weeks later, I returned with a friend excitedly, hoping to spend a couple hours here, only to find this door welded shut. I circled the building, but could not find any other feasible points of entry. I'm sure I'll be back at some point in case the door is reopened somehow, but I'm definitely bummed that I missed my chance here for the time being.
[last edit 3/9/2015 5:17 AM by Sanitarium Sean - edited 1 times]
| |
| JennyUE
Location: Everywhere & Anywhere Gender: Female Total Likes: 256 likes
I sold my soul to the open road.
| | | Re: Biggest Exploration Disappointment < Reply # 82 on 3/9/2015 7:45 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My biggest disappointment (and surprise) happened a few weeks ago. I had noticed an abandoned house up the block from my parents house for awhile. It covers most of the block in the big residential area, boarded up windows, no parking lot, fenced off, vines growing over everything.. So I decided to scout it one night. And I do. It's pretty cool, it's got a big barn (one entrance, locked), a garage (with a bunch of shit in it), and I think two smaller shed-like buildings that are boarded up tight. House is boarded up too. And I want you to realize, it's 1AM and there is NO ONE around. I'm walking around, jiggling handles, talking to myself, tapping windows and stuff. I'm being sneaky so no one can see me, and not making a lot of noise. But if, you know, someone actually LIVED in this house, it would be quite noticeable... Anyways, so I finish my scouting and walk back home. Next day, I ask my step-dad "So what's up with that abandoned house up the street?" He replies, "What abandoned house?" "The brick one, just up on the corner of ____ street." "Oh! That house. That's not abandoned." "WHAT." I'm pretty sure if I had balls, they would've dropped in that moment. "Yeah, some old guy lives there. I've seen him maybe once or twice, but someone definitely lives there. They are just a hermit." Conversation keeps going BUT needless to say, I hope I didn't scare the shit out of that guy the night before because I definitely wasn't being quiet with looking for POEs. And also super disappointed because that house looks SO COOL. T_T I ended up googling the address later that day, and sure enough, it's not for sale.
| You're not weird if you're not normal. |
| |
This thread is in a public category, and can't be made private. |
|
All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire.
To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site:
UER CONTACT
View Terms of Service |
View Privacy Policy |
Server colocation provided by Beanfield
This page was generated for you in 140 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740436564 pages have been generated.
|
|