Back in 2022 we went to Gainesville, Florida.
Here are a selection of photos that I took with my rig.
Mostly of the sandhill cranes - which are a subspecies of the crane that do not migrate!


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We spent today driving to the airport and stopping at everything I wanted to photograph that I saw on the way down!


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Eastern State Penitentiary is absolutely fascinating and I love that they're showing it in it's state of abandonment and decay ( Read more... )

In use from 1885-1996, Kings Park Psychiatric Factility is a massive properaty now used as a park.

Wiki Link to some information about it.


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The remains of the Mountain View Drive In.
Liberty, New York.
It used to have three screens and could hold 520 cars.
It opened on June 18, 1949. It closed in 1997.


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Here's a pretty thorough wikipedia article about Letchworth Village.


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I've been slowly working on getting up to date and I am still working on May 2022.
Today I bring you Homowack Resort. Sadly, this resort burned to the ground this week in a fire that had more than 150 firefighters present and that is so hot it has reignited three times now. It joins more than a hundred other Borscht Belt Hotels that have been ( Read more... )

Initially The Jacobs, then the Delmar, and finally La Minette. Nothing could delay the inevitable, not even renaming the hotel. It was eventually sold and operated as a drug rehab center for a while before closing completely.

This was a smaller hotel - able to host about 150 guests spread out amongst 6 different buildings.

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The oldest of the resorts - built in 1848 - White Lake Mansion House is still standing.
Out of respect for what is still obviously a somewhat cared for property I didn't try to get into it.

Atlas Obscura article here.


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Paramount Hotel

This place was an absolute labyrinth of different wings built in different eras. The original house that started it all as a boarding house was deep in the center.

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