Urban exploring.
UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.
That's like a half hour long, but it's really interesting. Urban historian and explorer Steve Duncan visits abandoned subway stations, train tunnels and et cetera in New York City. I love the idea of urban exploring, but am way to wuss to practice anything like that myself. Plus, for the most part you need to be somewhere, well, urban for it.
That being said, Marquette does offer at least one opportunity for it. There's this huge abandoned orphanage in town which Nicole and I visited in October as part of a university-sponsored "Haunted Marquette" tour. The tour itself was pretty lame; just driving past "haunted" places and telling ghost stories about them. Even though it was raining, we did get out at this orphanage and the tour guides told us stories of the various ghosts which haunt the place. We couldn't go in, naturally, because it's private property and condemned and this having been a university tour. But after the tour I promptly fired up the ol' PC and got googling; I found a blog post with a bunch of pictures of the inside.. the place is freaking creepy. Nicole and I have decided we need to get in there sometime (though I highly doubt we ever actually will lol).
It's very nice out today. I really need to go outside and enjoy this weather before I leave for Michigan on Thursday.