[Rockhounds] Visit from a List member, & a lava report

[Alan Goldstein]

I'm back on the listserve again.

We had quite a trip and I thank Kitty profusely for her hospitality. As she 
mentioned, we were on a tight schedule. That was compounded by the change in 
time zones of six hours so eating at 6 pm was eating at midnight a few days 
earlier! I would have loved to have gone to her house, but by the time we 
got back to the hotel, utter exhaustion had set in. In fact, I can say that 
it happened every night! In the morning my daughters had the hots to head to 
the other side of the island to do some snorkeling.

I often try to get together with folks having similar interests, but it is 
often a challenge because the rest of the family wants to go in a different 
direction. Usually I meet folks while the family does something else (i.e. 
hang around the hotel room or drive elsewhere). Once the kids are completely 
on their own, I think the pace of our trips will be different. Hectic but 
not frenetic.

I wanted to get things back to normal around the house before resubscribing 
to the listserve. Came back just in time for the strongest & longest heat 
wave of the summer. Lucky me! ;>)

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "teresa jetter" <territoones1 at ameritech.net>
To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Visit from a List member, & a lava report


> Thank you Kitty for that link, it lead to interesting
> finds.
> Teri
>
> --- Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Last Saturday I greeted Alan Goldstein and his wife,
>> Debbie, and
>> their daughters Rachel and Emily, as they got off
>> the plane here in
>> Hilo, with the traditional flower leis.  The next
>> day we went to the
>> Volcanoes National Park, but were not able to see as
>> much as we would
>> have liked, because one of the most interesting
>> sections of the park
>> near Mauna Ulu is still closed because of recent
>> earthquakes.  The
>> weather was mostly rainy and windy, and there was no
>> red lava to be
>> seen;  that's the trouble with Mother Nature:  she
>> often fails to
>> cooperate with humans!
>>
>> I had hoped to have the Goldsteins visit our home
>> and see our
>> collection, but they were on a tight schedule---only
>> two days on the
>> Hilo side, and then on to Kona.  Nevertheless it was
>> fun to meet a
>> rockhound we've met in cyberspace.
>>
>> Almost as soon as they left, lava began to flow out
>> of Pu'u O'o for
>> the first time in over 15 years.  If you search
>> "Pu'u O'o lava" (I
>> used Google News) you'll find several sites about
>> the new flow, and a
>> few pictures and a small video.  The area is not
>> visible to tourists,
>> however, and the only safe way to observe is via
>> helicopter; for the
>> dangers, see:
>>
>> www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/13761887/detail.html
>>
>> Aloha, Kitty
>>
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