I realized I had some pictures on my camera that I should put up, so here goes. We camped with the Mackeys on their property again over Labor Day and one afternoon we headed out to visit
Bishop's Castle. It has been entirely built by one man over the last 30-odd years out of what began as a cottage that made of stones native to the area. Someone commented to him that his cottage looked like a little castle and his vision was born. The man is a metal worker by day. He is what you'd call a conspiracy theorist and pauses from his work to shout his thoughts on government, religion, you name it, to whomever will listen. As you can see, the place is incredible. However between some of the safety concerns and the man ranting, I found it to be rather creepy and wouldn't be sad not to visit again.
Again, all done himself, these very cool windows have one crank that open them all.
This is the first balcony level, the grating there was fastened in not as many places as I would have liked, and I couldn't make myself step out onto it.
You can see the really incredible work here.
Though I did eventually get up to the first level, I initially was very happy to stay Spencer and Samuel who also were not happy about the winding, steep, open staircase to get up there. You can see us waiting outside for everyone at this point. Yes, that's me literally hiding behind Spencer, fighting tears actually seeing the rest of my family up there. You can also see where there is a section of railing missing and there is a ladder in its place. This is about 10-15 ft off the ground.
Back at camp, the kids discovered they had seemingly superhuman strength when it came to knocking over the dead trees with their bare hands.
Samuel, who was content to bang on dead trees all weekend with the tent mallet.
