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As JK requested I'm starting some threads on the places and things we explore on our wanderings. Feel free to join in and post your own as well - pictures always appreciated.
I don't normally have any place pictures, I've kind of left the documenting - from family events to places we go - to my wife because she' better at it. But I've hunted down some of her pictures and I'm going to start using her hand-me-down camera to do some of my own. Up until now I just borrow her camera for knife pictures.
I don't know how interesting this will be for anyone but here we go.
Recently our outings have centered on finding haunted things. I'm not a big "ghost and phenomenon" kind of person but I do like to get out. My wife is working on a book at the moment about our county and it has been a very good portal into the interesting history and stories about the area.
Anyway, our latest outing I guess.
We decided to try and hunt down an abandoned and, of course, supposedly haunted cabin and cemetery on a road called "Tanglewood." In the end we didn't find either the cabin or the cemetery but we did have a great time.
I was carrying my, "it'll take care of it" lot most used for hiking and exploring.
We only traveled a small loop of 21 miles from town but - and despite having driven and walked rather a lot of our home - felt like we'd really "gotten out there". A feeling that's pretty easy to come by in my experience around estill county. it's full of great places to go walking. Even 11 miles away from home can be an adventure.
Our dog, Lucy, also decided she wanted to come. She's an odd dog, she runs like a rabbit (and jumps higher) and catches mice better and more often then our cat.
We got stuck fairly quickly.
Well not so much stuck, just certain our car wasn't going to make it any further along the "logging road" - what i call them even if they're not. So we pulled over the first chance we got and started hiking.
A small walk uncovered the signs of a new oil company (UAE. Which we since google and found has set up a headquarters on...tanglewood road.) not a haunted cemetery, but pretty interesting.
It was a very isolated place, just like we like them. And also, unfortunate just some other people like them.
ummmm...small meth operation, maybe? It look like something was burred nearby, although likes likely just turned over sod, we didn't try to do any digging
We also saw some remnants of an earlier oil operation. In fact it's not too far away that the remains of an oil processing plant rest that we do know of. I don't know if there connected yet.
More walking
For some reason this road felt very much like ones we walked down in Arizona a few years ago
We found more remains of the previous oil work again. It took a second to see it because it was at the bottom of a gorge and the leaves make for good camouflager. We walked close enough to it to get a few pictures.
Then the dog started growling. A squirrel again no doubt, but it made my wife nervous. You can feel foolish following your gut or foolish for not following it and I prefer the first one.
Looking guilty.
We also stopped Maple road, one of my favorite roads home, for a few different reasons, and visited an abandoned cabin we'd seen before where I took my EDC shot (above).
One of the reasons I like to come this way home:
No exactly Indianan Jones, but we enjoy it. And sometimes we do find some interesting things. next time we think we can actually get tot he cabin and cemetery now we've seen the roads to compare them to the map.
So, what have you been up to.
I don't normally have any place pictures, I've kind of left the documenting - from family events to places we go - to my wife because she' better at it. But I've hunted down some of her pictures and I'm going to start using her hand-me-down camera to do some of my own. Up until now I just borrow her camera for knife pictures.
I don't know how interesting this will be for anyone but here we go.
Recently our outings have centered on finding haunted things. I'm not a big "ghost and phenomenon" kind of person but I do like to get out. My wife is working on a book at the moment about our county and it has been a very good portal into the interesting history and stories about the area.
Anyway, our latest outing I guess.
We decided to try and hunt down an abandoned and, of course, supposedly haunted cabin and cemetery on a road called "Tanglewood." In the end we didn't find either the cabin or the cemetery but we did have a great time.
I was carrying my, "it'll take care of it" lot most used for hiking and exploring.
We only traveled a small loop of 21 miles from town but - and despite having driven and walked rather a lot of our home - felt like we'd really "gotten out there". A feeling that's pretty easy to come by in my experience around estill county. it's full of great places to go walking. Even 11 miles away from home can be an adventure.
Our dog, Lucy, also decided she wanted to come. She's an odd dog, she runs like a rabbit (and jumps higher) and catches mice better and more often then our cat.
We got stuck fairly quickly.
Well not so much stuck, just certain our car wasn't going to make it any further along the "logging road" - what i call them even if they're not. So we pulled over the first chance we got and started hiking.
A small walk uncovered the signs of a new oil company (UAE. Which we since google and found has set up a headquarters on...tanglewood road.) not a haunted cemetery, but pretty interesting.
It was a very isolated place, just like we like them. And also, unfortunate just some other people like them.
ummmm...small meth operation, maybe? It look like something was burred nearby, although likes likely just turned over sod, we didn't try to do any digging
We also saw some remnants of an earlier oil operation. In fact it's not too far away that the remains of an oil processing plant rest that we do know of. I don't know if there connected yet.
More walking
For some reason this road felt very much like ones we walked down in Arizona a few years ago
We found more remains of the previous oil work again. It took a second to see it because it was at the bottom of a gorge and the leaves make for good camouflager. We walked close enough to it to get a few pictures.
Then the dog started growling. A squirrel again no doubt, but it made my wife nervous. You can feel foolish following your gut or foolish for not following it and I prefer the first one.
Looking guilty.
We also stopped Maple road, one of my favorite roads home, for a few different reasons, and visited an abandoned cabin we'd seen before where I took my EDC shot (above).
One of the reasons I like to come this way home:
No exactly Indianan Jones, but we enjoy it. And sometimes we do find some interesting things. next time we think we can actually get tot he cabin and cemetery now we've seen the roads to compare them to the map.
So, what have you been up to.
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