Not that there WAS anywhere to turn around, both sides stacked up with rocks like that. I can drive the van over a lot but she’s no four wheel drive jeep.
… with me & weird abandoned buildings.
I’ll get to that, though.
I keep looking for new places to spend the day. Shoulda turned around as soon as I saw how bad the road got, though.
I finally found a place with no rocks in the way & nearly got myself into another sort of trouble.
![A bit of a clearing in the woods -- with a sea of mud at the center, & tire tracks leading partway through.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_150112.jpg)
But I stopped before I got myself stuck — see, I CAN learn! — & turns out it was a pretty decent place to spend the day.
![Seen through the trees, the van sits just off of the road, which runs behind it & off to the right.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_154304.jpg)
I did my usual stuff — took a bunch of product pictures, made the big piece I posted about yesterday, hung out with the boys — & when everything else was done & the sun was getting low, went for a walk.
Seriously. What is it with me finding abandoned structures in these woods.
![In the distance, the remains of an old log cabin. The roof & most of the walls have long since fallen and there's no more than a couple feet of wall still standing.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_175019.jpg)
This one’s just an old, old log home though. I wonder how long it’s been there? It’s not a hogan — it was almost certainly built by white colonizers.
![The corner of the cabin -- built in classic log cabin style, with treetrunks at least a foot wide stacked atop each other.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_175048.jpg)
It was pretty big, for what it was. Sturdily built.
![A view from the side, three walls still visible -- the house was perhaps sixteen feet by twenty.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_175104.jpg)
Loiosh had to explore it, of course. But he didn’t want to go inside, just walked around the tumbledown walls.
![Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, stands atop what's left of one of the walls, looking curiously inside.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_175330.jpg)
The sun was about to set so we all headed back — but I found a bit of treasure on the way. Check this out!
![A short bit of iron pipe, well pitted & rusted. It's perhaps five inches long & maybe an inch & a half across.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200825_175814.jpg)
A piece of pipe — nice thick walls, just that short length. No idea what it’s from, or if it’s related to the cabin — it was at least a hundred feet away.
I’ll make something out of it, though.
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