[TorpX]

I guess you're right about people taking anything that isn't nailed down.

I've never played any of the "stalker" games so most of what I know of the zone is from newspaper stories back when or bits and pieces since. That travelog was interesting though. It reminded me of things written about places like Pompeii, where disaster struck a city without warning and left the ruins as stark monuments to what occured. I had never heard of the "bridge of death" before. The part about the old woman who went back and still lives in her home is moving. If I was in her shoes, I would do the same, I guess.