Three friends and I went downtown late at night for "urban exploring" for our first time. That's when you explore abandoned buildings - secretly. We went to an abandoned grain processing/storing building that was covered in graffiti and had dozens of broken windows.

Two of us stayed in the car to keep an eye out for trouble, and then a friend and I went in to investigate it. It had a barbwired fence around it, and had some lights around it to discourage what we were thinking of doing.

We walked around the building taking pictures while looking for an easy way in. After about 5 minutes we got a call on the walkie-talkie from our lookouts. They said they saw lights inside the building!

There were some tense moments of my friend and I crouching behind the building, waiting for them to tell us what was going on. They had binoculars, and apparently there were about three people inside. They said it looked like a drug deal, but I'm unable to confirm that...

We left and explored a radio tower, but ultimately we didn't do anything illegal or crazy.


•One day of high school left. This fall I'm going to Missouri S&T with to be an engineer.

•I have a website now, [link]

•I'm going to start uploading images ruthlessly now - or that's the plan at least. I'm too timid/lazy at doing that.

•I used to work at Wolf Camera, but they closed my store, now I'm at a garden center.

•I joined the Freemasons a few days ago because that seemed like an awesome thing to do.

•Life is okay after all.