Rain, rain go away
posted in Collecting Locations, Filming, Family & Friends |Justin called Hertz to see about getting another spare tire, but they told him that what we would need to do was take the busted tire to the nearest Firestone to get the tire patched. We were planning on visiting John Cornish in Provo anyway, so we took in the tire to get fixed. They told us that would be about an hour until it would be ready, which gave us enough time to explore historic, downtown Provo, Utah.
On the right hand side of the picture you can see the Firstone.
The community park across the street had a memorial to the the Utah soldiers that fought in fought in the Indian Wars.
Soon enough the tire is fixed, and we are ready to meet our buddy John Cornish for dinner.
Although this gaucamole looks pretty, it really wasn’t that good. Living in Tucson has spoiled us when it comes to Mexican food.
After a short visit with John, it was time for us to head to our camping spot, outside of Price, for the night so as to be able to get a start on filming bright and early. Justin had read about an old fossil location near a some train tracks.
However the only thing that we found were old railroad ties.
But the next two locations proved to be much more fruitful. We drove into the desert to collect fossils in a wash.
On the way we saw two Haliburton trucks, but we couldn’t figure out what they were even doing.
We went to a second location that was supposed to also have agates, but much to our surprise, we found quartz geodes.
They were all over the ground, and before long we have a pretty large pile.
But then we noticed the storm clouds rolling in,
so I quickly wrapped up our finds, and we walked back to the car in the rain.
While waiting for the storm to pass, we drove a short distance away to the San Rafael Swell to yet another agate & jasper location. In about a half an hour the sky cleared up, and we were ready to collect.
And then off to yet another location with the help of our Utah Topo Atlas, and no help at all from the Utah Gem Trails Guide (Justin is going to write a book review exposing the many inacurancies).
Oh.. and incidently, did you see the new Mineralogical Record?
We got a mention in the “What’s new in minerals” section.
