Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road

Hey all! Welcome to another installment of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this episode, we travel down the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania to a town that, like so many in the Rust Belt, was frozen in time; the city of Brownsville. Smashed hard economically when the steel industry began to collapse in the 1970's, this small city saw a drastic loss of population and the abandonment of so...

Welcome to another installment of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this episode, I make a not-so-shameless plug for photographers to check out Twitter as a seriously viable alternative to the rapidly declining Instagram to spread their work, and then we take a listen to a few tales in which Mr. P. met up with the local constabularies on a few out-of-town adventures. Huzzah! So, take a seat, relax,...

Welcome to another installment of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this episode, we explore the old adage "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." As explorers, you ALL know that sometimes no matter how well you plan for a trip or specific explore, something gets cocked up and ruins the whole show. Sometimes a whole day goes south, no matter how many contingencies you prepare for. Toda...

Welcome to another installment of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this episode, memory jostled thanks to a question from a listener, we go back twenty-some years to tell the tale of my first explore of all time; the now defunct, highly abandoned and mostly now-disappeared Chippewa Lake Amusement Park in Northeast Ohio. We'll talk about the history of the park, how it got abandoned in the first pl...

Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this installment, I lay out some of the details of my recent trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the crazy trek we took around the entire state to look for roadside oddities, Americana and some plain good old-fashioned weirdness. Cheese curds and crazy statues abound! Strap in, grab a snack and a drink and listen in to the retelling!&nbsp...

Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this installment, I talk a bit about the Packard Automotive Plant, its history, musings on exploring the biggest abandoned factory in the world and about what is going on with the reported demolition that is supposedly in the works. Also a few updates on the status of several other endangered locations in Detroit as of today. Also, a s...

In this installment of Mr. P's Tales from the Road, we talk about our adventures in the abandoned resorts of the Catskill Mountains of New York, where NYC's Jewish families vacationed and got away from the big city for much of the 20th Century (in which we almost get nicked at least once!), as well as a brief tale about our trip to Long Island to check up on an infamous psychiatric hospital. So, g...

Tonight I take a poke at some of the issues that are going down with sharing our photographic art and material on social media, and also tell a few tales about "not being alone" in am abandoned Flint, Michigan middle school. A short episode tonight, but the first official episode to be shared from this new podcast. Follow along and enjoy! Have a wonderful extended weekend out there, wherever you a...

In this episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road, we head west to the warm, sunny lands of California, to talk about the ruins and abandoned resort towns of the Salton Sea and some of the adventures had in a two-day whirlwind adventure mere weeks before Covid-19 descended upon us all. So, put on your Mamas and Papas album, hit the forlorn remnants of old Route 66, and settle in for a few stories fr...

In this episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road, I write a "love letter" of sorts to the Motor City; Detroit, Michigan, documenting some of my thoughts on what is truly an amazing place (no matter what you've heard!), as well as some exploration tales from what is a living, breathing "come-back" city. I spend a lot of time in "The D," have had some nutso adventures there and have made some fantast...

In this episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road, I dive into a very personal discussion on something that many of us deal with daily and have been dealing with so much more the last year as things have progressed throughout the pandemic: Mental health. Depression. Anxiety. And then a discussion on how urban exploration and photography is a light in the darkness while dealing with these maladies in...

In this episode of Mr. P.'s "Tales from the Road," we take a trip out to a city once graced with power and wealth, but which now decays in the post-industrial blight that so many Rust Belt cities suffer under; the city of Gary, Indiana. A few stories from our multiple adventures there and a discussion on Gary's plight; settle in and have a listen! If you dig what you hear, be sure to subscribe, dr...

Hey there, all! We are on the eve of trying something new here on Mr. P. Explores; going back to my old radio daze and continuing on the thread of my love for telling a good story, I've decided to give the whole "Podcast/talking at people on the YouTubes" thing a stab, focusing on...well, "Tales from the Road," where every episode I tell a few stories from urban exploration adventures, talk photog...