Abandoned Stuff

[Sage]

Awesome man. Did you find anything cool?

A couple straight six engines. One a Ford 402 diesel (401? can't remember), and a Detroit Diesel. They were huge. Like, half the size of my car. =/

Uh... beyond that... not really. It's not like the Air Force just vanished from the site. They took pretty much everything of worth with them. The base had a swimming pool which still smelled of chlorine despite how long it had been left alone (although we decided it might just be the mental association between pools and chlorine playing tricks on us). That was pretty cool.

There was a really beautiful fireplace just sitting on a concrete pad in the open. We assumed that the officer's quarters or something special like that had once housed the fireplace (which was really extravagant, and very large, much like one you might find at a high-end ski lodge).

There was also a big concrete ...something built into the ground which had no discernible point of access. It was very large and had a huge steam pipe going from it into some kind of service building, which was still in use. It was pumping water out into the field, so we can only assume that the hog farmers have converted it for some reason. It wasn't locked, but because it was also no longer abandoned, we didn't go in (though I wanted to anyway, my friends wouldn't let me).

@Ashe: You guys are litigation-crazy, though, and Americans are forced to go to outrageous lengths to protect themselves from being punished for the stupidity of others.

EDIT: Though I suspect if the military still owned the land, they would have gone to greater lengths to keep people off of it, abandoned or not.