PennSilverTaco's BS thread!

Definitely pulling off the "zombie apocalypse" look here; This is a brand new respirator that I bought at Sherwin-Williams on Thursday, because it is "large" which fits me better than the "medium" mask I bought at Home Depot right before COVID got started. My mom read that there might be toxic gases present due to the ongoing underground mine fires and about freaked out, and I told her I would bring this mask just in case. I did not actually need the damn thing, but I put it on just for the photo op...



Wearing it for an extended period of time caused my glasses to fog up (a major gripe of mine with the cloth, surgical, and N95/KN95 masks we've been wearing for the last two years); Also, as stated above the legitimate need to wear this mask did not actually present itself.

 

A frozen chain link fence and an iPhone make for a beautiful picture!



This fence surrounds St. Ignatius Cemetery, which once belonged to the long-demolished (in 1997) church of the same name...

 

Back on the road and beebopping around Centralia...

 

Inadvertently drove back to the outskirts of Ashland...

 

Driving back into Centralia after hanging a U-turn...

 

There were a lot of these "FOG AREA" signs around, and not just in Centralia (though this particular one obviously was); I don't think I've ever seen one in my neck of the woods!

 

My truck did surprisingly well on the hard-packed snow leading up to St. Ignatius Cemetery, without the "Fake Posi" mode activated; Gotta love those Cooper Discover AT/3s!

 

And leaving the cemetery; Photos taken with the Nikon D5600 will be coming momentarily...

 

The people in that gray Ram were also obvious out-of-towners who were exploring Centralia...

 

One of the many clues of what used to be here, a fire hydrant seemingly in the middle of the woods!

 

You can see a Hummer H2 making a right turn just ahead; My mom was worried I might get in trouble driving around up here, but this was one of several high-end off-road vehicles I saw cruising around Centralia while I was there...

 

That black Expedition also seemed to be a tourist, specifically a mother who probably had kids in the backseat...

 

And this was after I left Centralia, driving back through Ashland on the roughly hour and a half drive to my aunt's house in Lehigh...

 

This was in Tamaqua; I saw an old dealership sign and along with it the perfect photo op...

 

Tamaqua literally reminds me of a model railroad town...

 

Also in Tamaqua; A PT Cruiser with an interesting choice of wheel covers...

 

Beautiful scenery as I got into the Lehigh Valley area...

 

This was in the driveway of my aunt's house in the Lehigh area, near the end of my journey; I literally ran my truck through the car wash a few days ago, and it was fairly clean when I left for Centralia on Saturday morning...

Look at it now!





You will see in some of my Nikon photos just how filthy my truck got!

 

And cue the photos taken with the Nikon!

 

Vandalism...

Bastards!