Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Abandoned places

during our holiday we already saw sooo many abandoned places.... unbelievable. entire motels, hotels, houses, cars, trucks, you name it. this morning we drove by the above place, it had 3 of this kind of cars, and 2 relatively new cars, all abandoned. the shops (and houses?) had still a lot of stuff in it, perhaps just everything (by looking through the window), and were abandoned too. just so weird! why? i keep wondering. is it the because this country is so huge, and has so much space, that you can just leave behind what you dont like/want anymore, and start anew somewhere else? is it because of money? someone bought it but then something happened, not being able to use it and its just forgotten? nobody wanted to buy it and over time it became worthless?
this morning we got up early again.. it was very sunny and we had a run in panama city beach! something i surely never imagined i would do... then breakfast at the waffle house (we saw so many along the way yesterday, we were curious). the waitress was so nice and the food was good and cheap, yumyum. such a breakfastplace you defenitely cannot find in the netherlands, where they keep filling up your coffee, and where you can share one plate if you like... then we had a long drive ahead of us again. we drove to tampa! the route was beautiful again. different from yesterday. we drove through many forests... and now we are in a very, very fancy hotel. it was only 90 dollars and when planning this trip i thought it would be nice to have a hotel after the airbnb home and 2 motels (but the motels were not bad at all). we got warm chocolate cookies upon arrival, and there is a gym (we went. sitting in the car is not good for us, we eat too much!!), and a heated outdoor pool (we swam) and a toooo hot outdoor whirlpool (how fancy!! but the champaign we had in the room.. :) ). and now its time for bed. tired again...
here i uploaded some more pics of our trip, from memphis and new orleans..

6 comments:

biebkriebels said...

That is sad those abandoned houses and with the cars still in front of it, weird. There must be a tragic story behind.

Nellies said...

Exactly what I was wondering when I saw this abandoned place & car and read your stories. Why do people leave so many things behind, and where are those people now?

I like all of your travel stories and photos a lot! Makes me wanna go on that trip too :-)

Sylvia Neumann said...

I wonder, can you just take the stuff???

Kay said...

Wonderful travel pictures! Thank you! All the abandoned places -- so curious. Wish I knew what the stories are. It doesn't look like leftover hurricane damage. What does it say about us?

Unknown said...

this is the old Seminole Restaurant in Blountstown Florida it is still the same the 3 cars are still sitting there except someone lives in part of the building now but it is still full of junk my friends mom used to go there in the 60's she said it was the place for teens to hang out back in the day

CaT said...

@charles: somehow i saw you comment only now. how funny its still all there!
would like to drive by once again...