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Before saying good-bye to New York, and heading up to Maine, Scott (Scott Wallace, Majestic Minerals) wanted to show the claim that he shares with Mike Walter of Geologic Desires. This location is noted for the sweet Diopside, Feldspar, Apatite, and Sphene that has been recovered. After packing the car up, we headed out. Much to our surprise, we found that road up was well maintained because the celluar towers that were errected further up the hill.

Scott’s digging spot, was a short walk into the woods from the side of the road.

This was the first time that Scott had been to the claim this season, however Mike had a pretty big diging operation under way. Unfortunately he wasn’t there when we arrived.

He showed us around the diggings, and told us about the deposit.

We putzed around for a little while.

This is and example of a larger sized specimen that Mike had pulled out earlier.

And a few other pieces scratched from the tailings piles.

Then it was time to bid Scott farewell, and get back on the road. This time it was off to Fryeburg, Maine to camp in our pal Tom Klinepeter’s (eBay seller starkhillgem) backyard.

On the way out of New York we passed an open field housing a sculpture garden. We pulled of the road to go back and check it out.

Turns out it was open to the public, so we took a few photos.

However, we didn’t spend too much time because we had a long way to drive. We did stop at a rest area in Vermont.

They had flowers,

and free coffee.

Finally we arrived in Maine. We were really tired, so after talking breifly with Tom about our game plan for the next day, it was time to get everything together before it dark.

But not before I took some photos of Diane’s (Tom’s Wife) flowers in the back yard.