[Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)

[Pmodreski at aol.com]

I can't resist responding to this line of thought...
 
In a message dated 11/27/2007 12:47:31 PM Mountain Standard Time,  
ajs at frii.com writes:

>  ...weirdest, most primitive (or high-end), most dangerous or coolest
>  place that members have camped, boarded or otherwise racked out during
>  a rockhound trip.



About three years ago, heading home after the Tucson Show, I left Tucson  
after dark Sunday evening and planned to camp out in the desert; I knew of a  
good place to get off I-10 onto some dirt roads near the AZ-NM border  (Steins 
Pass), where I'd stopped on my way out and gone for a little hike--found  some 
neat volcanic rocks there, though no minerals of note.  So I pulled  off; since 
I knew where I wanted to go it was easy even in the dark; and parked  about a 
mile from the interstate.  Well, because it was (a) pitch dark, (b)  ground 
all rocks & cactus, and (c) it had been a rainy last few days so all  was quite 
damp, and as I've mentioned there isn't quite room enough to sleep in  the 
back of my Cherokee especially when it's packed full of stuff, I just tossed  my 
air matress & sleeping bag up on the roof, carefully climbed up there (so  as 
not to dent the sheet metal with a knee or a foot), and slept very  
comfortably on the roof--first time, then or since, that I've ever done  that.  My Jeep 
has a little roof rack, so the railing provided reasonable  assurance that I 
wouldn't roll off.  In the morning I was treated to about  the most magnicent 
sunrise I'd ever seen; clouds and colors kept changing as the  sun moved up 
toward the various hanging clouds and fog banks down low in the  valleys to the 
south, and I took "gazilions" of pictures with my digital  camera.
 
Pete Modreski, Denver CO



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