Shades of Death, the Old Mine, and the Men Who Scream at Cars

Just recently, I spent a few days with my good friends Mark and Brian. Although we spent a day at the Central / South Jersey landmark that is Six Flags Great Adventure, we spent most of our time in their neck of the woods, in the north.

Roleplaying Games and Fictional Best Friends (Repost)

I had originally written and posted this article on 05.26.2012, but due to a charming conversation and thread on the roleplaying board on Reddit (r/rpg), I had to dig up this piece due to the smile it brought to my face and the wonderful memories it stirred.

We have been keeping our love for roleplaying games very much alive in the house, with plenty of home-brewed rules and campaigns since, but that is a topic for another day. Enjoy this little throw back about fictional characters and how they can affect our lives.

Up in the air

Most of these kinds of posts occur around the New Year. You know the type: new beginnings, new commitments, those sort of things. Well, that's not really the situation in my little realm of existence, at the moment.

Into the Belly of the Beast - The Paulinskill Viaduct, revisited

"It seems that whenever we do go adventuring, Jeff," he said as we descended the steep hillside trail, nearly blind in the dark, "That it is always a game of escalation."

And he was right.

The House of Bees and Bone

It should be known that my experience at this property was, subjectively, the most terrifying experience in my personal history of exploration.

Clinton Road, New Jersey

Clinton Road, located in northern New Jersey, has easily been one of the most evasive and alluring pieces of Weird NJ lore that I have ever read about.

The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

In the summer of 2011, a friend and I traveled almost four hours to a desolate area of Pennsylvania In order to hike and explore an abandoned stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.