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Unfortunately I will not make
my habitual pilgrimage to Quartzsite and Tucson this year, but a
desert tortoise informs me that a great energy fills the air as
frenzied crowds visit booth after mineralized booth. I must
admit I will miss what the late Larry Bruce called “miles and
miles of eye candy.” To a much lesser extent I will even miss
the traffic jams and those odorific outhouses... but miss them I
will.
The goings on in Quartzsite and Tucson, Arizona, are
absolutely the best rockhound experience ever, bar none (Searles
Lake/Trona Gem-O-Rama is third). Neither
experience is easy to describe. The two locations will be the
temporary home for literally thousands of dealers, from all
points of the globe, showing off their mineral wares. These two
southwest locations are nothing short of spectacular, and are
certainly a wonderful December, January, February, and March destinations.
Over the years I have tried to capture the wonderment of it all
for you, but in the end there are truly too many things going
on, in too many places at the same time, to capture it all. I
suggest you check out all of the cracks and crannies for
yourself—as rockhounds you know where the goodies are!
By the way, while in the area I highly suggest you
visit:
Wiley's Well
Opal Hill Fire Agate Mine
Kinney's
Rock Shop
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