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I often wanted to go do this as a child growing up in Arkansas. In hindsight, each time I would bring it up my parents would have something of an "oh shit, any
by arwhatever 5y ago
I often wanted to go do this as a child growing up in Arkansas.
In hindsight, each time I would bring it up my parents would have something of an "oh shit, anything but that!" reaction and would quickly distract me with some other activity or suggestion, and to date I've never been.
I'm certain that to them, the suggestion was essentially to drive several hours out and back to play in the dirt.
(this article is well-written and quite interesting, btw)
- keanebean86 5y agoI grew up in Arkansas too. I've went digging twice. Once as a kid and again in my early 20s. Funny enough I woke up with horrible back pain the second time and was basically worthless the whole day. My wife hated the whole ordeal so we've not been back.
- ajmadesc 5y ago> I grew up in Arkansas too There are dozens of us!
- 7thaccount 5y agoArkansas is covered in pretty rocks.
- up_o 5y agoI'm pleasantly surprised to see four of us in one HN thread. I'm moving back this fall (been career building for the past 7 years out of state).
- seigando 5y agoWent when I was pretty young. I remember finding tiny pieces of glass on the ground that we took to get inspected to find out that it was, in fact, glass and not diamond.
- exhilaration 5y agoHa, when I was 9 or 10 I took some coal to a jeweler because I was convinced it was some exotic and valuable stone. I still have no idea what I was thinking.
- ajmadesc 5y agoWent there for a school field trip around the age of green. They did you a favor, I hated it then!
- mikewarot 5y agoI grew up in Indiana, and went with a friend on a road trip back in the 1980s. I remember it as a hot dusty field where you dig with your friends, all get tired, and end up buying some quartz crystals at a rock shop on the way home.