[Rockhounds] Bucket List

[Tom Bowers]

Pete, 
   
  Thanks for the book recommendations.  
   
  Also -
   
  I was very narrow in describing my interests and thanks for pointing that out.  I'm interested in minerals and rocks as well.  In fact, regarding the rocks, my wife - after years of having no interest in my hobbies - has recently taken up jewelry-making.  As such, she is very interested in looking for some agates, etc. on this trip to use in her jewelry.  (I have a good representation of lapidary equipment.)  
   
  So -
   
  If you know of any mineral and/or fossil locations to recommend, I've very interested in these as well.
   
  Thanks again,
   
  Tom

pmodreski at aol.com wrote:
  Ah, Tom, you could of course get into a more seriously interesting pursuit and start collecting beautifully crystallized MINERALS instead of just all those old dead squashed and buried critters and vegetables!

(Hope you don't mind a little good-natured poking fun here...)

But I did want to mention, a very entertaining book, if you haven't seen it (perhaps you have), is 
Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip , by Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll; a fun to read tour of the most famous and most interesting fossil sites of the western U.S. (not all of which one can collect at, of course).


Also, as I'm sure you'll see at MAPS if you haven't seen it already, the new book (Jan. '08) by Lynne Clos, North America Through Time, a Paleontological History of Our Continent, is very good--I bought a copy in Tucson.

Pete Modreski

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Bowers 
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:45 pm
Subject: [Rockhounds] Bucket List



Folks,

I'll be attending my first MAPS (Mid-America Paleo Society) bshow in Macomb, 
Ill this April - have motel reservations and all.



So I got to thinking (turned 60 yesterday), how many opportunities will I 
have left to do some of the fossil hunting I've always wanted to do? My wife 
and I sat down and looked at the calendar and decided that April and May are 
pretty much free (we're both retired now) save some Dr. appointments that we may 
try to avoid. 



So, we've decided to take at least April, and maybe into May, and tour the 
mid-west to hunt for fossils, rocks and minerals. We're considering OK, MO, IL, 
IN, KY, IA, SD, ND, MT, WY, NE, KS, CO, and maybe even Alberta, Ca. as 
possibilities (but clearly not anywhere near ALL). I have all of the Gem 
Trails for the available states, but these are not always the "right" places to 
hunt.



So the pitch . . . Would anyone be willing to give up some info on some good 
sites to hunt to a guy for his "bucket list" dream hunt of the mid-west? (Come 
on now, how could you refuse that?)



Seriously, I'd appreciate any info anyone on the list would like to share,



Tom Bowers

tomrbowers at yahoo.com



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