This week, YouTuber Dana C Burkey joins us to share about her niche travel interest: abandoned exploring. We hear about what inspired Dana’s love of this hobby, and where it’s taken her to!
- Packing lists
- By hand!
- Judging Cheryl
- Doesn’t forget things
- Abandon Exploring
- Chernobyl
- What Cheryl does/doesn’t know
- Dana explains what happens
- Former hospitals, ghost towns, military forts
- Goodnoe HIlls, WA
- Satsop Nuclear Power Plant
- Mansfield Ohio State Reformatory
- Filming site of Shawshank Redemption
- Rules
- Don’t do damage to the site
- Often you don’t tag a location
- Have to use context clues to find the location
- Google “abandon things”
- Went to “devil’s tower” with random teenagers
- Tagging the building, skateboarding
- History of a place
- Sometimes its not possible to know
- Sometimes there are plaques, sometimes it can be found online
- Joined a fb group
- Rules about not giving location/asking about locations or you will get banned
- It is ok to ask about places without directly asking the actual location
- You have to do the work
- A dead deer that looked like a dead lion in Ohio
Wish You Were Here
Cheryl: Garnet Ghost Town, Missoula, MT
Dana: The Oregon Vortex, Gold Hill, OR
Ryan: The Kuranda Koala Gardens, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia
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