Schools coming around shortly, and I haven't had much luck finding drains in my dismal city. However, I have kept my eye on a construction site, for the new home of a very successful electric wholesaler, Graybar. A couple months pass and I see that construction is coming together with some interesting things for me to check out.

    It is now 21:00 on August 23rd, and I pump myself up to travel solo, and explore the building. I have no car, so I pack up my backpack and begin walking to the building. When I arrived, I quickly made my way to a pile or girders, and hid behind them until traffic eased up, so no one could see me enter the building. The building is centrally located around residential, light industrial, and a lighted baseball field 500 meters away from this building. A few minutes pass, and I quietly slip into the building. In front of me are hundreds of girders, wall panels, and blocks of concrete. The building has 2 floors, the ground level, and an upstairs. The ground level so far is spilt into 2 sections. The section I entered was the offices, and such. The other section is a huge space to load trucks, and hold inventory.

    After I crawled along against the wall of the office part of the building (to aviod being spotted by traffic) I entered the larger section of the building. whoa. There wasn't even a concrete floor yet, just a huge 4 walled, gravel floored building. As I started going through this room, I saw a light "shit!" I backed-up against the wall, quickly turned off the maglite, and waited for the light to go away. Then, I heard an engine noise, and some guy yelling. I was unsure at the moment what to do, so I waited for the guy(s?) to leave. After 15 minutes of some more yelling, the car finally left, and so did I, back to the office section of the ground level.

    I searched around the office section of the building, not finding much, and made my way towards the stairs. Again, I layed low against a wall until the traffic lightened up so I could go up the stairs un-noticed by motorists. The second level hasn't been done yet, but I could still move around up there. I walked along planks to get a look at rest of the building. The upstairs didn't offer much for me, except a nice view of the entire building from above. I looked around for ladders, or anything else to get me higher.

    Success! I found a 30-foot ladder to take me to the roof!! I quickly scaled the ladder, and got up on the roof. It was a nice site. I walked around up on the roof, and tried to take a picture of the city. Unfortunately, the picture turned out bad, as did most of the pictures that night. Anyhow, I had a nice, cool breeze against my face up on the roof, and decided to chill out and watch the night scenery for a bit.

    Afterwards, I went back down the ladder, down the stairs to the gorund level and left the building. At this point in time, I didn't even care if anyone saw me on the site, cause I was leaving. I put the camera, my maglite, and streetchy gloves into my backpack, and started my journey back home. I pulled out my music, and strolled home to witness a beautiful lightning storm, and got a bit wet from the rain.

    So concludes my adventure at Graybar. See you in the next installment of Urban Exploration.