Sunday 10/17 - I found it, but is it really abandoned?

I went down to the "possible filming location" today. I thought it would be a breeze getting there, but there were problems. First, I drive down there, but I realize there's no obvious place to park. At the same time when I'm passing this place, a police car drove by, so I got a little paranoid. When I was driving away, I noticed through my rear-view mirror that the police car pulled over to the side of the road. Weird.

So I drive around to find a place to park. I find a parking lot about a mile away, at some park, and then I walk through the wash for a mile. That probably took an hour. But I finally get there.





On a first glance, things are awesomer than I even expected. There's all these crane things with little catwalks on them.

 

I pretty much only have pictures of this thing, because soon after this, I saw another person. There was a guy standing near what appeared to be a cement mixer at the "front" of the site. I saw him from the back, so he may have not seen me, but I decided to not stick around much longer.

Across from the wash, there was some other cool, but less significant, junk. Here's a really old car.

Then I walked back to the park. On the way, I noticed someone had parked their sedan on the edge of the wash. I'm pretty sure it wasn't there when I arrived. It creeped me out a bit.

When I leave the parking lot at the park, a police car pulls in. Also creepy.

I guess I'm just really paranoid, but I keep thinking people suspect me for doing "bad things" whenever I'm outside. That's pretty much how I always feel when I go out to do movie stuff. Ugh.

When I got home, I decided to look it up on Google maps again. Then I checked Bing's maps, with the "birds-eye view" function. The pics on birds-eye view are definitely outdated. The landfill was definitely a lot more active than it is now. That could be a good thing. I'll continue doing research. Next time I should just read what the sign says at the front of the site. [/facepalm]

peace.