Thursday, April 22, 2010
For everyone that keeps asking, YES, plans are underway for another summer of gold prospecting. We'll head down California way. We are planning to be down that way for almost 3 months. We are already assembling equipment and working on the lists of supplies. Since I am going to be working here in Sutherlin, Oregon for the next 2 months, I want to get a head start with getting ready for this trip. We are planning some lengthy wilderness backpacking trips & campouts. It will be great to get to the backcountry and away from civilization once again. We learned a lot on our trip last summer and know a few things that we want to add to our gear and supplies. There's lots of great new prospecting equipment and tools these days so I am in the process of doing research for this next gold prospecting expedition.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" --Henry David Thoreau
I know there are those who think we are foolish to be going off, on yet another gold adventure, at our age. Remember, "you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." I leave all of you with a few wise words from Steve Jobs ~ see article below.
