[Rockhounds] Accommodations

[Tim Jokela Jr.]

Small world - I was selling at the Gemboree that year, and it was a weird 
one. We're just not used to 100 degree temps here in Ontario. A buddy put me 
up in his house north of Bancroft, never mentioned that it has no air 
conditioning - so I was decidedly sick and sleepless. I just can't take any 
serious heat, and was glad as hell to get out of there.

When the big storm came, it was amazing, blew the screens off the house and 
took out a lot of timber. Not much damage remains visible; I drove around 
there this fall and you can see where some forest used to be, and some 
splintered trees, but it really looks pretty much normal and healed up. I'll 
never return to Bancroft in July/August; Sep-Nov is just so much nicer for 
collecting and you've got the place to yourself.

Cheers,

Tim Jokela Jr., tjokela at execulink.com
Business: http://www.element51.com
Pleasure: http://www.ontariominerals.com

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From: "Carolyn Reynard" <sunstone3 at hvc.rr.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: [Rockhounds] Accommodations


> The summer of 2005 found several club members, Mid-Hudson Valley Gem &
> Mineral Society of Poughkeepsie, NY, traveling to Bancroft, Ontario, 
> Canada.
> It was the weekend of the annual Gemboree so getting a place to stay had
> been reserved ahead of time. We had two rooms behind a corner store and
> restaurant.  There was water, AC, TV, suitable beds, misplaced sink faucet
> so you couldn't get a glass under it and weird wallpaper - an adventure.
> The weather was extremely hot for there, hovering during the daytime at 
> 102
> degrees.
> Late afternoon, while were at roadside collecting diopside and scapolite
> huge towering clouds were developing and we could hear the rumble of
> thunder. Being originally from Kansas I knew we were in for a big storm. 
> We
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