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vwtype3guy
Location: Liverpool, NY Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | | Re: Rural Exploration < Reply # 3 on 11/8/2005 2:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Me too, me too! I absolutely love old farms, farmhouses, barns, fields--basically the whole package. I feel very strongly about the preservation of these wonderful places; part of the reason is attributed to the fact that many of the old farms in my hometown have been/are currently being razed to make room for residential and commercial purposes. I cannot begin to tell you how much this infuriates me. Anyways, if any of you are interested in the places that I have explored/have yet to explore, you can check out my Yahoo! Photo album at: http://pg.photos.y...cmerulla/my_photos Unfortunately, since I am still a basic member, I am unable to contribute any of these locations to the database. If you would like to give me your Yahoo! User ID, I will permit you access to my private albums, which basically contain the location that I am most protective about (the old gray farmhouse that I have as my personal picture). It has been so badly vandalized, and I cannot bear to see any more abuse to such a beautiful place. Thus, I never reveal its location, and very rarely do I show pictures of the exterior that would allow for possible identification. I know, I'm a nut...but I've had my eye on this place ever since I was a little kid...I suppose there's some sentimental value attached there.
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| jB
Location: Pickering, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
He who speaks does not slack; he who slacks does not speak
| | | Re: Rural Exploration < Reply # 6 on 5/15/2006 5:42 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I posted this in a another forum but I think that UE is really closer to infiltration rather than exploration. Most truly urban areas are accessed pretty frequently and are at least fairly well known. Rural areas, on the other hand, are sometimes very old and often haven't been set foot in in years. Those are generalizations, of course, but that's been my experience. I prefer rural exploration just because of the variety of sites you encounter. I've been in mines, houses, factories, caves, silos, and all sorts of structures that you usually don't find in the city. The range combined with the age makes RE a ++ for me.
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| DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption Gender: Male Total Likes: 202 likes
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | | Re: Rural Exploration < Reply # 8 on 9/19/2006 10:15 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | To me, Rural Exploration is recreational drug use. Urban Exploration is a hard-core drug addiction that leaves you wanting bigger and better things to explore and consume. I lived in AZ and KS for 6 years and was a weekend rural explorer. I would find a ghost town here and an abandoned farm or school house there - one or two buildings at a time. It was all good and I was pretty happy with the pace. Then I moved to the East Coast. . . . Now I am constantly searching for the next amazing factory, central terminal station, prison, or state hospital to discover and explore. Rural exploration is much more "on your own" and self guided. UE, at least here, is well documented and there is a lot of ground-work done for you already. I do not know what the appropriate treatment program for this addiction would be nor if one even exists.
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Rural Exploration < Reply # 15 on 11/11/2007 10:17 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Victoria has been transformed from a lovely decaying Victorian-Edwardian city into re-formatted condo hell. There are plenty of vacant upper floors in very old buildings around town, but they are all under strict lock-and-key, presumably due to the number of people living on the streets and/or shelters. Kind of sickening, really...all this space, and none of it for people who desperately need secure and available space. So...instead of busting my chops over this, I retreat to the woodlands, forests, etc. and find such things as the island's first hydro-electric generating station. Nice site. It's like something out of a JG Ballard novel...walking through dense rain-forest, and there, in a overgrown clearing, is the remains of the building. This is, in my view, WAY more satisfying that sneaking past security to get a behind the scenes glance at peeling paint, etc. So now I'm researching for another film project and I'm preparing to bust out and find some of the abandoned company town that dot the shoreline of Vancouver Island. Fishing villages that died 70-80 years ago. Old mining towns. Cannery towns. Like an alien space ship sucked all of humanity out of these places one Monday morning, before the company whistle blew at the start of another day. There are, according to my sources, places around here that look as though everybody simply got in their cars and left everything behind. The kettle's still on the stove. There's a roast in the oven. The corner store has newspapers from 1940. That kind of shit. And over the years, the forest that was cleared to make space for these towns grew up around the abandoned town. There are trees sprouting from the bowling alley lanes. A tangle of vines snakes up and around a lamp post. Can't wait to get into these places.
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