Byers Race Track / Colorado Motorsports Peoria, CO I stand very still, one ear facing the plains, the other leaning into the darkness of the stadium. A red bucket, strung up by a short rope, basks in the Colorado October sun, swinging back and forth ever so gently, in tempo with the emboldened wind as it…

Location: Homowack Lodge | Spring Glen, NY Hi. Season 2 of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is underway! Click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you to rate/review/subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake…pod.link

Location: Unknown Gas Station | Cactus City, CA Hi. Season 2 of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is underway! Click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you to rate/review/subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake…pod.link

Location: Great Barrington Fairgrounds, MA Hi. Season 2 of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is underway! Click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you to rate/review/subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake…pod.link

Last Chance, CO A Ghost Town You can listen to the podcast version of this story here. *** I didn’t plan on writing this so soon, but it was clear, the second I stepped out of my car, that I had to. Because I’ve been waiting to visit Last Chance for a while. …

Location: Lehigh Valley Dairy — Allentown, PA Hi. Season 2 of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast has begun! Click the link below to choose your podcast provider — and if you’re feeling extra generous, I ask you to rate/review/subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake…pod.link

Unknown Country Cottage Pohjola, Finland Both Sanna and Janse voiced subtle concern over my going alone to the abandoned grocer’s house in the middle of the Finnish countryside. And I admit it: everything on Planet Earth looks far less intimidating from outer space. I think that’s something a lot of astronauts probably think…

Unknown Cabin Town of Rochester, NY ** Content warning: This story contains what some may consider a gay slur. While referenced as a term of endearment — or, a reinvention of the word — some readers may find it to be offensive. Please take care of your heart. *** I’d like…

Hey friends! This Thursday: jump into my imagination (virtually) at the North Carolina Museum of History! Can the human imagination serve as a space of healing and serenity as much as it serves as a space of creativity and wonderment? That’s the question I’ll ask the audience at NC Museum…