[Rockhounds] Santa Barter Faire: cheap rocks!

[John Siebel]

Really sorry to miss you Don! Nice trip report. I was at the Barter Faire 
from 11:30-1:00. Then hit the store and did another round at 2:00 hoping to 
find you. As I said in an off-list post to you, I traded some junk rock for 
a nice quartz piece of unknown origin and a chunk of gold ore/quartz/pyrite 
from the Pogo Mine, Delta Junction, Alaska. Adam, the guy I traded with, 
worked at the Pogo Mine and now works at Emerald Creek Garnet (Idaho). He 
has offered to take us to some secret sites to find some golfball-sized six 
star almandine garnets (he showed me several). Adam was one of the 87 guys 
there in a tie dyed t-shirt. I also noted a bunch of petrified wood for sale 
of unknown provenance. I guess that was my biggest problem - nice specimens 
of unknown origin.

As you said, it was a beautiful day and you should really hang out for the 
drum circle/hippie swirly dancing on Saturday night. Personally, I'm too old 
for it. I also bought a bag of Yak jerky. These folks live right down the 
road from us and supply us with yak manure for the garden,

Done blithering and sorry to stray off topic - John