Day 4
One of my earliest memories is being in a disused colliery in South Wales, and lobbing stones down a ravine at several rusting cars that had been dumped there many years earlier. In fact, I think this might have been what triggered my life-long fascination with abandoned cars. The photographs I’ve seen online of my next location remind me of that colliery, so I’m keen to find it. The only problem is that it involves several miles of off-roading.
The location is a dry river bed five miles from Benson, Arizona. There was once a salvage yard here, but it closed down decades ago when it was purchased by the railroad. They wanted to put a new line in, and the cars were in the way. Instead of removing them, they simply