Location and surroundings (Hanover, MD):
- Less than a mile from the BWI Airport & Amtrak station.
- Miles of woods & streams connecting to Patapsco State Park.
- Abandoned houses & underground facilities (bunkers?).
- Industrial parks full of warehouses & factories.
- Lakes, ponds, train tracks, tunnels, bridges, farms.
 
What I did for fun (age 5 to 15):
- Raced plastic tractors & trucks or tank-like wooden go-carts, some with skateboard trucks for wheels & steering.
- Rode bikes (usually "borrowed" for the day) from BWI to Annapolis & then back, for no reason.
- Stole bags of golf balls from Friendship Park to hit with a bat off my roof into the neighborhood at night, to hear glass break & car alarms go off.
- Ran as fast as we could toward lightning during bad storms to see who had bigger balls.
- Built tree-forts, lit fires, caught frogs, lizards, fish, snakes, & mice. Shot hundreds of glass bottles with my rifle.
- Broke into satellite testing areas to skateboard inside the giant dishes for a few hours.
- Made "bullet-proof vests" out of my collection of National Geographic magazines & shot BB Guns at each other.
- Made fireworks to blow apart dead animals, abandoned houses, or cars in the junkyard.
- Played cat & mouse with DNR by doing donuts on four wheelers & dirt bikes all over their marijuana crops.
- Climbed radio towers that stretch beyond anything you could see just to chill and get away.
- Spent hours & sometimes days on graffiti projects under bridges and sides of buildings.
- Found cars that worked (or fixed them) in the junkyard to crash into each other, race, or jump ramps onto other cars with.
- Explored unusually hard to break in to abandoned houses of ex-military personnel left completely furnished & untouched since the 70s.
- Played video games, plus poker & Monopoly games that lasted days in my OCD "museum kept" room.
 
In my "downtime" of Social Interaction:
I read books. A lot of books. At 1st about animals & insects, then of the human brain. Much of which, being so young, I didn't understand. So I wrote notes. Well, more like questions that every few years I'd look through and see if I had yet come across the answer. My fascination with symbols & secret knowledge started about age 7 when I'd leave cryptic notes on friends' doors to decode & find me.