[Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)

[Paul Gilmore]

Peter:
 
How about posting one or two of those pictures?
 
Paul> From: Pmodreski at aol.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:18:30 -0500> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.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> > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest > products.> (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)> > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---> multipart/alternative> text/plain (text body -- kept)> text/html> ---> -- > _______________________________________________> Rockhounds at drizzle Mailing List> Subscription Services:> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds> List Home Page, with a link to the List Usage Policy:> http://www.eclecticlapidary.com/Rockhounds/index.html
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