No Man's Land Quotes

“Meg finally found the words. “They’re killing each other off in a race to the final payout?”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Tankcatting: Breaking into a site overcoming locks, obstructions, and decay.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Holy Grail: A high-risk, high-reward exploration that requires extensive research, planning, and sometimes collaboration and teamwork.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Dirty Shot: A photograph taken using maximum aperture (minimum f-stop) and high electronic gain (ISO) to capture action in low light. The resulting image is grainy and blurred.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Crater: An unplanned and possibly unprotected fall from a significant height.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“You’re right, anytime you’re doing an external search, the wind is what carries the target’s scent to you. But obstacles can play hell with air currents, and what’s a building but a giant obstacle? The air flow is coming over the building and falling on the far side fifty-odd feet from the near wall. The wind isn’t too strong today. A harder breeze would have the scent landing farther out, and he might have missed it altogether. It’s called a chimney effect. Walk too close to the obstacle and you’re actually walking out of the scent trail.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“First Service: The time of the first passenger train departure in the morning. Access to abandoned underground rail sites becomes much more dangerous once scheduled service begins, since rail platforms are crowded with commuters and the third rail providing power to electric trains is energized.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Urban Adventure: An investigation of derelict structures focused on experience rather than sightseeing.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Bricked Up: An entry point that has been blocked or made inaccessible in the past.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Busted: Getting caught trespassing in an urbex site.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“Urbexing: Urban exploration, usually of abandoned or nearly inaccessible man-made structures.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“one of Roth’s grandkids, a guy who’s one of those business whiz kids who had his eye on an MBA before he even started his undergraduate degree, mentioned what he described as the ‘weird annuity’ his grandfather received.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“this is the company that first figured out how to mill I-beams. There’d be no Golden Gate or George Washington Bridges without them. Or the Empire State or Chrysler Buildings. Or the Hoover Dam. The steel for all of those projects came out of these five furnaces.”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land

“someone is killing seniors and dumping their bodies, or is taking them places they can’t escape from and then leaving them to die?”
― Sara Driscoll, No Man's Land