Hello From North Central Texas

[Prey4Me]

Hello, fellow enthusiasts!

I can't wait to talk with you people, my kind of people!

Raise your hand if you have ever wondered if the tires on your vehicle were going to make it home from what started as a fishing trip, that turned rock hunt!

(waiving)

Raise your hand again, if you have blown a tire, and the spare! While trying to make it home with a load of rocks, in your passenger car!

(still waiving)

And raise if you gas mileage is terrible, brakes prematurely wearing and shocks broken from being too tired to remove all the rocks from your car when you get home, and they stay there for a week or so!

Nice to meet you all! My name is Scott, age forty-seven, and I am from Fort Worth.

Edited November 19, 2017 by Prey4Me

[Ludwigia]

Hi Scott and welcome to the forum. Sorry to dissapoint you, but I can't even raise my hand once here, although I've been collecting for quite a few years. Try not to overdo it, eh?

[Prey4Me]

I'm a gung ho spaz sometimes but I love learning. That's good advice though!

[Fossildude19]

Welcome to the Forum, Scott.  

Regards,

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello, Scott, and a jolly warm welcome to the Forum from Morocco.

I also cannot raise my hand here, I don't drive, but I know what you mean!  

[Miocene_Mason]

Welcome to the forum from Maryland! I can identify with fishing trip turned fossil hunt (in fact a lot of trips end up as a fossil hunt) but who doesn’t like a little spontaneity in their life?

[Fruitbat]

Welcome to The Fossil Forum! (note absence of raised hand)

 

-Joe

[abyssunder]

Welcome to TFF !

[GeschWhat]

While I didn't get a flat on my way home with a passenger car for of rocks, I did blow tire on my way to base camp on a dirt road paved with petrified wood chips. Welcome from Minnesota! 

[Sagebrush Steve]

20 hours ago, Prey4Me said:

Raise your hand if you have ever wondered if the tires on your vehicle were going to make it home from what started as a fishing trip, that turned rock hunt!

Welcome from California.  My fishing trips and fossil hunts end up being one and the same.  Of course the fish I catch turn out to be 50 million years old, a bit past their expiration date to be served for dinner. 

[Gizmo]

Welcome aboard! 

[RyanNREMTP]

Howdy from Wacko, Texas. 

[sixgill pete]

Welcome aboard from the central North Carolina coast !

[FossilDAWG]

Welcome to the forum.  I can definitely relate to the "car full of rocks for weeks" scenario.  I haven't blown a tire fossil hunting, but I have while fishing, or at least while launching a boat.  We were busy watching the boat to make sure I was backing up straight, and failed to notice a board full of nails at the water's edge. Doh!

 

Why do you want people to hunt for you?

 

Don

[BobWill]

Welcome from Cooke County. I'm waving my hand frantically and can add losing the clutch on the VW bus, not once but twice, with a load of fossils aboard!

If you haven't already, check out the Dallas Paleontological Society. Lots of folks from "Cow Town" make the drive to meet with us on second Wednesdays and a lot of our field trips are actually closer to you than the "Big D" members. The annual fundraising auction is on the 13th so that's a good time to come check us out. You don't need to be a member for all but a few of our activities. Details here.  https://www.dallaspaleo.org/

[Nimravis]

Welcome from the Chicagoland area, we’re leaving rocks in your trunk in the winter may lower gas mileage, but they help keep you on the road during a snowstorm.