I Live in a Pick-Up Truck

This was a nine month journey of self discovery. I left Portland in May 2009 and returned in February 2010. I used this travel as a tool to regain self-confidence and a good perspective on the world. It worked.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

the zombie town of mora tau / a fine ruins

i am heading south on the 1 and trying to get closer to the ocean. i see a road and exit that would do that, but i have already passed it. so i take the next one. and it is not what i want, i meander around trying to get to an oceanfront road. and all of a sudden i am encountered with the largest dead city i have ever seen.

there is a huge city 20-50 city blocks squared that is just dilapidated houses. they all look like group homes like it was a summer camp or something, but it is way too large for that, there are real streets and they have names, the houses all have numbers, and it is all fenced off. i drove around the side that i saw and looked for an entrance. i didnt find one that i could easily get into so i went further. and then there was more of it all fenced off and i went down another road.
fort ord zombie town
zombie barracks
zombie street
zombie pole
branch of zombies
zombie row

there is found a entrance that i could squeeze through. i got through the fence and all of a sudden, i was scared. it was completely dead in there, it looked as if there hadnt been anyone in there for quite some time. so i walked into one of the house. there was bedding and a pan in there, like someone was there last night. i was freaked out, so i got out of there quick. then i just walked up the road snapping photos of it all.

i wanted to go into one of the larger hall style buildings, but what if there were zombies in there or something? they were just waiting for me to come in so they could eat me. or really, worse, what if i came across real people that were living in there? i would be freaked out. would i run, would i try to converse? i dont know.

i will try to find more info on this.

there will be zombies! i learned that it is fort ord. a decommissioned military testing site and barracks. the military used this plce for artillery testing, they shot big guns into the dunes. they decomissioned to barracks cit in 1994 and it has just been growing decrepid since then.

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