Random Driving...(includes some walking)

Continuing our tradition of driving around aimlessly (because we hate the earth and want to pollute it as much as possible), here are a few shots from the past couple weeks. They include another visit to the Moravian cemetery in Bethlehem as well as a couple other cemeteries around the area (hey, we just think they're cool, it's not like we're ghouls or something).
my girlfriend is way prettier than yours, and here's proof
For some reason I really like taking photos of our kitchen, so here's another one
While walking the extension of the Ironton RailTrail past where old Fort Deshler once stood and into Egypt, we found this great old cement factory near the Troxell Steckel house (plenty of other folks have documented that house built in 1756, like this fella ) which looks like its been sleeping for quite a while. There is an old quarry just to the west of it that a hunting club uses and a little company town, some of which is abandoned.
The locals have a cool rope swing that'll plop you into the Coplay Creek on those hot summer days that seem so far away now... the ladder on this tree leads you to it.
These abandoned homes have been pretty well trashed, and what the local kids haven't done nature is working on but as far as cool places to creepy-crawl, they seem pretty perfect.

I seriously doubt this is up to code...The out-houses are failing a bit, but they sure look neat-o.

I haven't found anything out about this old place, but maybe I'll look into it some more for next time.



I decided to make a point of getting a few shots of the Whitehall Mall interior. As a kid we (my fam) would go here pretty often, and it used to be a pretty cool indoor mall that, for whatever bad reason, was turned into a mostly outside, glorified strip-mall sometime in the last decade or so. However, parts of the old mall still exists and you can actually see where they just chopped off the front of the mall when you walk in the doors . Therough edge on the bottom of this wall is another sign of the Hack job they did on this place. The biggest anchor store (which was a Leh's in my time) was literally chopped in half and now houses a fitness place. It's too confusing for me to even understand what happened to the movie theater. Whatever. Just another sign of how things change and how utterly pointless that change often is.
Yum! Honey Bunny makes me one of these raw wraps everyday!


Some old cemetery west of town off of old route 22.
Our second visit to the old Moravian cemetery that you learned about a few posts ago. We then walked along the bluff in Bethlehem to the next cemetery down the line...










...and we found these creepy, ego maniacal folks' grave! You can also see the most in -you-face evidence of the decline of our society, the remains of the once mighty Bethlehem Steel (1857-2003), now just a rusting hulk. But hey, it's not all bad (actually it is), the good folks who brought you the fall of western civilization have used part of the buildings to bring the world another casino for our new Gulag-Casino economy! Ya-Hoo!!!!



And then we went to the shoe house. Soon we felt like we needed a little intercourse......Pennsylvania, that is.
Strangely we soon found some Amish which we thought could be Menonites until we saw and that kinda straightened us out. we found another covered bridge (this time with a chemtrail!) and ate at a Diner. As you may know, it is a state law that every third structure must be a diner. I don't think we even ate at this Diner, but I'm sure it has the same menu.
And before you ask, yes, this dragon actually runs the farmer's market. Until we go burning up some more of those fossil fuels (yeah right) and wasting valuable mega-pixels, bye y'all.
LELKO