The flowers on my back deck are so beautiful right now!! I get distracted by them daily! Back to the topic of the day. I've always had a serious fascination for all things abandoned. It's so eerie and intriguing. I grew up watching tons of scary movies with my dad, so infatuated with mystery. I received my BS in fashion business marketing, almost a year ago, and was fortunate enough to do an abandoned-themed photoshoot. This photoshoot was maybe two years ago and I found this abandoned bus, while searching for interesting abandoned locations, in SD. Here are a few pictures from my photoshoot. Photo credit: Kerstin Winter Back to 2014. So, I've been wanting to come out here again, and yesterday we made that happen! The area is Sycamore Canyon Test Facility. It's actually restricted government property. My bad. But it's just so cool, how can I not? Anyway, the day was fairly warm weather! Probably in the low 80's. It's a few miles to hike out to it, and super creepy the whole time. Since it's government property, I feared the entire time that they would either come out with guns and warn us off the property, or a helicopter would land near us. Neither happened, thankfully. [Please note: When we are on property that is considered "risky", like this, we are not destructive nor are we disrespectful. Again, please keep in mind nature can be fragile.] My curious George. We couldn't figure out exactly what it was. Still so cool, though! We continued on the trail, with our destination in site: building 4 and the abandoned bus. The last time I was here, this building was open. You were able to go inside. I didn't go inside, which now I'm sad, since it's bolted shut. Awwwww :) This structure is so strange. We weren't sure what it was for, since there was no door to go inside it. Jesse found this melted glass down there, that we thought was pretty neat. Building 4 also has a "7" on it, along with an alarm. We guessed that a lot of this property was used as a shooting range, hence these "tables", that went on a path, for a while. oh, hello...ironic There were bee hives everywhere, in the broken pipes!!! Luckily, I had my EpiPen, just in case! It ended up being quite peaceful to just sit and chat; although, the whole time I was a bit paranoid. And now, time for our jumpy pics! We started heading back, and stopped at a rusty old water tower. My monkey had to climb. Climbing a water tower was something he always had on his bucket list! We were hungry, so, we decided to head back to the car. We ended up grabbing Chinese food and eating it at Mira Mar lake. A wonderful end to the day!! Picture of the day is rusty barbed wire. We had to walk through it on our way out. I've always had an attraction to anything rusty, as well as barbed wire. Call me weird. Thanks for reading! Until next time. Ciao
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