went to byberry today. we found it fairly easily, and oddly, maybe it was just timing, but the security truck right away came and drove by where we were parked on a residential street behind the property. he went down the street, turned around and sat there watching us. so of course he saw me and adr2 and a tripod and getting jackets on etc. he drove back and by us again and we pretended to get back in the car. we didn’t know what to do cuz he so knew what we were doing. so we drove around to the other side of the property, thought we could go through the woods from this big office complex. so we went into the woods which seemed great til we found the creek. backtrack again, back to the residential neighborhood. parked a few streets up and walked to the property. then we’re walking into the complex and there’s someone else walking and watching us. great now what. well…no one came after us, so we just stayed.
sadly i was really disappointed. i can’t tell what it was that we went in, because the map shows a whole lot of stuff that i don’t think is there anymore but i think we went in w6 and n8. we walked around c10 and c11 but no way in. they looked like much older buildings, so we thought they’d be more interesting than the ones we went in – which seemed too new for my taste. the place is really destroyed, stupid graffiti everywhere. graffiti in meyer malting is really cool, good artistic tagging etc. this was just, so and so was here, and welcome to hell crap. but TONS of it. so it was yuck. and every floor looked the same, and it was uninteresting sameness. so yeah. maybe if we had been able to go with a “guide” they’d have been able to show us highlights. most likely won’t be making another trip back – possibility of finding brains or not. i took half a roll of film and maybe 15 digital pics (it’s completely useless without a tripod).
we are going to go to the pines and concord instead of hudson psych on monday with a “guide”. so i’m looking forward to that. should be much better than today.