>>11760053The oddest thing about this gas station is the complete lack of road access. It's in the middle of a forest, with nothing but this huge reservoir and a couple small walking-paths around. Either way, I stop to pee into the reservoir, and check on my iPhone to see where I am exactly.
My iPhone's map places me on the far far west end, where I most definitely am not. Great. Even better, after looking in the area a bunch, I can't find any sort of water in the area at all, aside from a stream in the park section (which I already knew about). I figure the map app is bullshit, and give up on it.
Now things get really odd:
So I go back into the bush-woods, this time trying to make sure I head west and only west, since I've been going almost entirely east this time. I make it to a large, gnarled tree, with a bunch of torn tire treads hanging from its branches, like some weirdo decorated it.
Pass by that, and eventually come across a large fence with barbed-wire on top. After some searching, I make it to a small gap in the fence, rolled away at the corner, probably by some guy. On the other side of the fence, I can see a sign which says "PRIVATE PROPERTY. TRESSPASSERS WILL BE SHOT." Oops, I guess I shouldn't have been there...
This is now back into a thinly-wooded area, and I can see the freeway again, on the other side of a rather thickly-wooded area. I start hurrying in that direction, now dead tired and kinda paranoid due to everything that I just saw.
That's when I hear a sound, something like a mountain lion scream. There's a lot that could've made that sound besides that, and it was far away, but I was feeling paranoid, and I start running toward the freeway.
Finally, I find my way back to familiar areas...the nice paths through the woods, the stream, and joggers and bikers everywhere. I wander a bit, and near the entrance, I find some stoners who shared some weed, and managed to calm myself down.