Well played. And a grill I'm assuming?

Nope.

Step your game up, bro.

Nah, I go to my friends house for grilling.

Mooch off your friends, get wasted off their beer, then go home and almost drown in your pool. Sounds legit.

If by "mooch" you mean bring over a couple porterhouse steaks and a 30 pack, then you sir are correct.

You are a better friend than I. Not that that's hard.

Places I'll be tracking down over the next couple of weeks.

Queen of Sidney / Ship Graveyard
Decommissioned BC ferry privately purchased and converted into a scrapyard for 20th century junk.

http://i.imgur.com/sobEOwn.png

Walden North / Vernon Pick's Mansion
Walden North was a private estate, scientific research facility, manufacturing installation, and doomsday shelter built by multi-millionaire American uranium prospector Vernon Pick in the early 1970s. It's is located 8 km South of Lillooet, BC in the mountains of Cayoosh Canyon. This will be the first location that I've targeted outside of the Fraser Valley, a bit of a road trip.

http://i.imgur.com/JR8rrOn.png
http://i.imgur.com/1YgMKiu.png
http://i.imgur.com/hZ6EV14.png

Chilliwack River Valley Cabin Remains
The remains of an old cabin in the mountains of Chilliwack River Valley.

http://i.imgur.com/YxqhFtg.png

Was there today. The germanest **** ever.

http://www.landkreis-rottweil.de/cea...705&height=262

Germany >>>

Probably my favourite European country.

My friends place. This room was built and zoned as an attached garage, but after the village inspector signed off on it... Music Room!

https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...69&oe=5826E673

We used to jam in his kitchen. It was a bit cramped.

My pool. Well, it's not actually mine, this is the indoor/outdoor pool for the condo association where I live. There's also a weight room and a sauna in between the mens and womens locker rooms (not shown). I had a nice swim with the GF the other day and decided to take these pics, since we were the only one's there at the time. The pool is 88° (F), and the Jacuzzi is 104° (F). It's absolutely perfect year round.

Pool/Jacuzzi:
http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...pswhxyn3wx.jpg

Jacuzzi close up:
http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...pst30flfyj.jpg

The thing about this place is that I've been swimming/working out here since 1979 when my parents moved in across the street. I was even the maintenance man for the grounds, and clubhouse right before I started school for my chosen career path in the early 90's. I had moved out some 30 years ago, but have consistently kept coming back to this place, since my parents lived there the entire time, until they passed and my brother took over. For a while in my 30's, I'd ride my bike from 35 miles away, work out here, then bike back home. Crazy. I was in pretty ****ing good shape back then though. I recently moved a block away, have been going there a lot more, and it's gonna be awesome to sit in the Jacuzzi with 2 feet of snow outside once again, while I watch the snowflakes fall in a month or so.

I hope you get a yeast infection.

I could make a hot pocket with some of that.

I think that's a yeast infection's natural habitat anyway.

lol, eurgh.

I think you're on to something there:

http://i.imgur.com/4MgmMkS.jpg

^ That all sounds very enviable, Plankton. I'm beginning to think you must have sold your soul to the devil; Robert Johnson bargained his soul for his guitar skills didn't he? You seem to've struck the same deal and got a jaccuzzi thrown in! Sweet.

Meanwhile, this thread is building up a catalogue of great photos, and these are some of the recent best, imo:- ^ Undeniably beautiful, grindy, but like Epoch, some of my favourite buildings have an element of the shabby or dilapidated about them too. Of these haciendas, most within cycling distance of my house, my favourites are the abandoned ones:-

http://www.vayestravel.com/imagenes_...anantonio3.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6193/6...f00de3b4_b.jpg

I was here yesterday. This castle is almost 1,000 years old, it's built on the top of a hill and looks amazing when you see it coming up. This one is quite small, I'm hoping to see some other Midland castles soon. Warwick looks fantastic.

http://www.wpiusauk.com/DUDLEYCASTLE.html

lol, cool.

Here's some photos I look in November that I thought I'd share. This place is a woods just to the north of my town where I like to go walking sometimes. It's also alongside Lough Ree, which is one of the largest lakes in Ireland. It takes about an hour and a half to walk the full circuit, which winds around a castle and its surroundings.

Fallen leaves
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0004.jpg

Lake shore
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0005.jpg

Lake shore
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0006.jpg

Autumn colours
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0007.jpg

Abandoned ruin
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0009.jpg

Dead trees
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0010.jpg

Inlet
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/IMAG0012.jpg

Hey fellas, been a while. Spent a LOT of time exploring the province since my last post and I've started putting it all together in a sort of map book project, detailing each place along the way. Abandoned mines, ghost towns, homes, farms, commercial and government buildings, scrapyards, caves, and so on. So many places I should have shared here, far too many now to post them all, here are some of the highlights:

http://i.imgur.com/xEq2u7F.jpg

If you're interested in this kind of **** and would like to know more about any of the places pictured above I've got about 75% of the book up on Dropbox right now:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/byz1354mxz...dated.pdf?dl=0

Loving the camera on the G4, here are some unedited (although compressed and resized) shots from today's ride.

http://i.imgur.com/4KBhaae.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qTc48kf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4WLIFKN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sAMJAJE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XLxoN1e.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zqDN46f.jpg

I've ridden those ATV's a few times. They take some getting used to for sure. Incredible scenery, btw.

I'm going to Seattle to visit family in a couple weeks. It's been three years since I've been. Beautiful up there.

I'm honestly posting this as a test post. For some reason, I've posted twice before, but it says I have 0 posts.

I am going to Seattle, though.

Watch out for Ki...

Gorgeous pictures, gorgeous landscape. I do love Ireland. It's gotta be the greenest place I know.

You should go to Flint Hills in Kansas... 9936 sq miles of green.

http://flinthillssplendor.com/images...s_fromair.jpeg

I'm leaving for Seattle with my girlfriend on Saturday. We're visiting some of my family. It's been three years since I've been back to Washington.

Say hi to Ki and sex him for me

Beautiful.

I'm jealous of all of you. I live in north Texas, so pretty much everywhere you go looks like some variation of this:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/a7105ead...ia5io1_540.jpg

It's terrible not having a forest within walking distance to wander into whenever you feel like it. :c

Lmao one of our members allegedly lives in the woods as well.

I have woods I can go into behind my house that go on for a while too.

Must be nice to be able to go cryptid-hunting whenever you want.
*grumbles*

Whoever lives in a forest: adopt me please?

Spent 3 days last weekend driving across BC to Jasper, AB and back, stopped and snooped around a bunch of ruins that I plan on adding to the book. Heavy snowfall prevented me from checking out some of the others that I was planning on hitting so I'll have to make a return trip in the summertime. Tons of pictures, I'll try to cull it down to my favorite spots, can only do 10 per post.

I'll try and post them in order to give a sense of what it's like to drive across central BC in the winter.

Part I.

http://i.imgur.com/KBcXvml.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iqWy2p4.jpg

Part II.

http://i.imgur.com/XMBeQmR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RKl2vD6.jpg

So Fallout basically.

Part III.

http://i.imgur.com/ALnKG4B.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TxYOjwx.jpg

What's it like in the future with the zombies?

That looks cool. I saw snow once, about 30 years ago when I was an exchange student in France, I don't remember it that well. Snow to me looks like a landscape from another planet.