That's a beautiful day, Gone!
Too bad about the bump, but nice to hear the guy took it well. Ride by there again with your hand-pruner in the saddlebags, and trim that bush down to size. You'll save somebody else a major headache.
RE: abandoned homes...about a month ago a guy from Alaska posted a shot of his DR650 in front of an a long house with more than an average number of windows on the side. It looked to be from the early 1900s. I posted a similar comment to yours, that I liked to imagine who lived there, what happened to the place, etc. The guy who posted the photo knew the story: it was a brothel and each window along the long side of the house was a small bedroom where the gals did their business. The gold-mining area fell on hard times and people moved on, their customer base dwindled and the house of ill-repute closed shop.
Not an answer I was expecting, but still interesting.
(08-17-2025, 09:38 AM)Ollie Wrote: ... For some reason when I see old abandoned homes like this I imagine the families who lived there, the parents with children then becoming grand parents, how did they live, the good times and the hard times, why was the house abandoned, what became of them?
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Too bad about the bump, but nice to hear the guy took it well. Ride by there again with your hand-pruner in the saddlebags, and trim that bush down to size. You'll save somebody else a major headache.
RE: abandoned homes...about a month ago a guy from Alaska posted a shot of his DR650 in front of an a long house with more than an average number of windows on the side. It looked to be from the early 1900s. I posted a similar comment to yours, that I liked to imagine who lived there, what happened to the place, etc. The guy who posted the photo knew the story: it was a brothel and each window along the long side of the house was a small bedroom where the gals did their business. The gold-mining area fell on hard times and people moved on, their customer base dwindled and the house of ill-repute closed shop.
Not an answer I was expecting, but still interesting.