Any Rockhhounds going to the Tucson show?

[Ptah]

http://emol.org/tucson/gemshow/


The Complete Gringo's Tucson Summertime Visit Survival Guide


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Avoid Summer Visits - It gets pretty damn hot out in the Sonoran Desert
here in Southern Arizona during our summers, and the best advice
regarding visiting then is just don't do it. While the weather in Tucson
is enviable for the remainder of the year, the only reason anybody stays
here during the summer is because they're too poor to leave! If you're
planning on doing a little field collecting during your visit to Southern Arizona,
venturing into our remote desert areas during the summer is very
hazardous and unpleasant due to the extreme heat. If you choose to
ignore this first piece of advice, please don't say you weren't warned,
and be sure you heed the rest!
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<snip>
Don't Mess with the Gila Monsters and Cacti - The indigenous Sonoran
desert flora and fauna are beautiful and unique. Many also carry built-in
self defense mechanisms with which you may not be familiar.
You may know that cacti have thorns but you'll never really appreciate
that until you're painfully "ambushed" by a jumping cholla cactus right through
your jeans and tennis shoes! The desert is also home to venomous critters
such as rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and scorpions. Use some common sense
and bear this in mind as you're hiking, camping and rockhounding in the desert.
Many species of our native desert wildlife are threatened and endangered and
protected under Arizona state and federal laws.
<snip>
Don't Golf during Lightning Storms - Our monsoon storms are often accompanied
by spectacular lightning. Tucson is in fact a geographic center for the scientific
observation and study of lightning. As ridiculous as it sounds, it seems like someone
gets hit and killed almost every year while they're playing golf in Tucson during a storm!
The lightning is often too spectacular to resist observing, but try and use a little
common sense about what you're doing and where you're doing it during one of
our lightning storms. A rockhound's iron prybar held aloft during a monsoon storm
is probably tempting fate just as much as a gesturing to the Almighty with your putter!


http://www.tucsonshowguide.com/tsg/

[Redstone]

1. I've been attacked by a Cholla... them sonsabitches will get you

from about four feet away, won't they?

But their flowers; they are worth suffering to see, aren't they?

Redstone

[Ptah]

2. What a wonderful world it is when plants will protect themselves!

:ouch:

[Redstone]

7. Damn you. That's such a nice picture that it makes me very sad

that it's been so long since I've been in the desert.

Maybe this year I'll get back out there.

Redstone

[Ptah]

8. Ever see the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum?

[Redstone]

9. Yes, I have. I used to travel to Phoenix for business in the 1980s.

I did go to the museum (and liked it a LOT), but then got our of town as quickly as possible to go to the out-of-the-way places like Jerome and Oatman...

Arizona is a wonderful state. I've always thought that you could live there, and spend every weekend and all your vacation just wandering around, and even after twenty years of doing that, you still would not run out of amazing discoveries....

Redstone

[Ptah]

10. Jerome is a delight.

Perched on the side of the mountain.



What a view.

:applause:

[Redstone]

15. I have some good pictures of that old hotel there, which by now

has probably been restored...but when I was there, it was just a shell, though a shell that had some of the original fresco work and Spanish mosaic ornamentation left in the walls.

That was back before you didn't dare to go into abandoned buildings because of the hantavirus; I had a lot of fun exploring places I wouldn't enter now.

Everything changes...

Redstone

[Patiod]

18. stayed at the "Ghost City Inn" B&B

AMAZING view of the Verde Valley below.

[KitchenWitch]

3. I am not, but I do LOVE rocks!

[Ptah]

4. I'm pretty sure I saw that bus in Tucson last summer.

Is that Kusinich's campaign bus?

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

5. No, it is Paul Wellstone's bus

Which acted as a memorial when he died.

[Ptah]

6. I only learned about your senator Wellstone after his death.

We lost a good one.

:cry: :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

11. Yes we did

I cried for a good week after he died.

[Ptah]

12. I hope you will enjoy these photos:

[KitchenWitch]

13. Those are cool!

I love the lighting effect with the flowers in the bottle.

[Ptah]

14. I must confess. I took that photo for Cindy Sheehan.

The vigil.

[KitchenWitch]

16. It is a gorgeous photo!

[Ptah]

17. No matter what month it is, spring is in our future

[Shine]

21. Ho.

:hug:

[Patiod]

19. Grrr - not THIS year, but have been in other years!

Bought gemstone beads (I made a huge amazing amethyst necklace that everyone must think is fake), blown-glass art beads, and some gorgeous fossil stuff (boxes and coasters) from Turkey.

Fun to wander around the different motels out there on that one strip. I got smart, and made myself a fake business license and tax I.D. the second time I went - not to defraud the tax people (I bought <$100 worth of stuff) but just to show at the door so I could get in on the good bargains!

[Strong Atheist]

20. Always liked rock collecting, haven't done much ... nt.

[Shine]

22. No, I'm not, but I absolutely LOVE rocks and stones.

In fact, I named my son "Jasper", which means "master of the treasure". I wore it all the time when I was pregnant with him.

Have a great time when you go, Ptah! :hi:


Rock on, buddy.
:yourock:
heheh.