Footloose in Tucson
Well, another productive day in the engraving class. I'm starting to get where I can controll the gadget reliably - usually.
After class, I took a free gem show shuttle downtown to where a lot of the main shows are. It quits running at 6pm, but there was way too much to see in one hour so I decided to risk public transportation again. Went to one of the main fossil and mineral venues. Could have bought my own T-Rex, but decided not to mortgage the farm. Went to see the meteorite guys from Germany - no doubt the ones Coppertone heard about on NPR - and for $20 bought a little piece of the Bensour meteorite 4.56 Billion year old. thats older than dirt. That's older than anything you can touch on this planet that hasn't been metamorphosed. These are the guys with the moon rocks. Not brought from the moon, but meteorites of lunar origin.. They had just scored the biggest lunar meteorite ever from bedoins in the Sahara - a fairly nondescript looking rock the size of a misshapen softball that was priced for more than a family of T Rex skeletons. In this one motel room are me, the two german meteorite hunter-gatherers, tables of pieces of other meteorites, the moon rocks and the bouncer. He's Alex, a 6-6 350 german with alot of tatooes and a mohawk haircut. Actually very friendly.
Well then, I was really hungry but starting to wonder about getting back to my hotel again without spending $40, so I asked the desk clerk if there were city busses. Yes there are, big terminal plaza nearby, but since it is Sunday they quit at 10pm but they go out past even my Hotel. Great. So I have a nice mexican dinner first, then head over to the terminal about8:30 only to discover that all the busses quit an hour earlier.
Hmm. So I start to walk in the direction of my hotel, thinking maybe I can flag a cab that's going it that direction and avoid the "We'll be there in 20min"-no show BS. After walking about 3 miles, with 5 or 6 left to go this was beginning to feel like a bad idea, when finally I did flag a
After class, I took a free gem show shuttle downtown to where a lot of the main shows are. It quits running at 6pm, but there was way too much to see in one hour so I decided to risk public transportation again. Went to one of the main fossil and mineral venues. Could have bought my own T-Rex, but decided not to mortgage the farm. Went to see the meteorite guys from Germany - no doubt the ones Coppertone heard about on NPR - and for $20 bought a little piece of the Bensour meteorite 4.56 Billion year old. thats older than dirt. That's older than anything you can touch on this planet that hasn't been metamorphosed. These are the guys with the moon rocks. Not brought from the moon, but meteorites of lunar origin.. They had just scored the biggest lunar meteorite ever from bedoins in the Sahara - a fairly nondescript looking rock the size of a misshapen softball that was priced for more than a family of T Rex skeletons. In this one motel room are me, the two german meteorite hunter-gatherers, tables of pieces of other meteorites, the moon rocks and the bouncer. He's Alex, a 6-6 350 german with alot of tatooes and a mohawk haircut. Actually very friendly.
Well then, I was really hungry but starting to wonder about getting back to my hotel again without spending $40, so I asked the desk clerk if there were city busses. Yes there are, big terminal plaza nearby, but since it is Sunday they quit at 10pm but they go out past even my Hotel. Great. So I have a nice mexican dinner first, then head over to the terminal about8:30 only to discover that all the busses quit an hour earlier.
Hmm. So I start to walk in the direction of my hotel, thinking maybe I can flag a cab that's going it that direction and avoid the "We'll be there in 20min"-no show BS. After walking about 3 miles, with 5 or 6 left to go this was beginning to feel like a bad idea, when finally I did flag a
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