Buried Space Rocket

Interesting urban exploration video:


Space Miami - Aerojet-Dade Rocket Site Documentary from Coffee and Celluloid on Vimeo.


(via the In The Garage blog)

(sub)Urban Exploration II

Our grrrl really enjoys getting out and checking out the hidden and forgotten-about areas near our home. Last October the two of us explored the drainage ditch that separates our neighborhood from an adjacent one.

Since it had been six months since our last journey - and since it's now still light out well after dinner, we pedaled the HellBetty up to the top of the 'hood to do a little recon.
Even if I'm providing 90% of the power, it's still great to share a bike with Celeste. Even if she's soft-pedaling, her right thumb is super-busy ringing the Electra "ding-dong" bell repeatedly at any living thing within a half-mile radius.

And off she goes "C'mon, Daddy!"
We didn't find too much on this trip. Some flowers that were so big and perfect that they almost looked fake;
A turtle:

complete with a spot of bird poop on the little guy's shell

And some California poppies growing in the cracks of the concrete.
Run run run...
Found a couple of tennis balls for Juno. Now to find a way to carry all the goodies back home.

(sub)Urban Exploration

I'm fascinated with urban exploration - checking out places that are slightly off the beaten path and are lightly tread. Thankfully daughter Celeste has the same adventure bug in her.

A few weeks ago we took our tandem around the neighborhood and stopped at an empty lot. Not sure exactly why a home wasn't built there - it's really no smaller than the other micro lots here in beige acres.
Behind the lot is a drainage ditch that runs the length of our neighborhood, separating it from the neighborhood to the east of us. When we first saw it, we only went back a hundred feet or so. Since we were pressed for time I promised her we'd return - and Friday evening we did just that.
We had a great time checking out this forgotten space that's right in the heart of suburbia. We found a small bamboo grove......a lemon tree with plenty of ripening fruit that's inaccessible from the back yard where the tree resides...
...an Aim-A-Flame (or rather an Aim-A-Flame knockoff)...
...plenty of curious doggies...
...all while searching for snails, slugs and bugs. We played up there until Allie called us home for dinner - perfect timing as the grrrl was getting hungry from the adventure.
Granted the total out-and-back hike was less than 2 miles, but for Celeste it might as well have been 200.