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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Blacktail on September 15, 2011, 01:35:14 am

Title: how far have you gone
Post by: Blacktail on September 15, 2011, 01:35:14 am

whats the furthest that you have traveled for rock...john

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Tower on September 15, 2011, 02:27:26 am

All across Hell & half of Texas. Seriously about 6.5 hrs.  Almost half of TX. >:D

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Newbow on September 15, 2011, 04:35:42 am

I regularly (2-3 times a year) drive to Glass Buttes, 400 miles one way.  I have gone as far as Craig Ratzat's quarry (2150 miles) but that was just taking advantage of a family reunion that was relatively close by.  I just got back from collecting jasper in the Bad Lands of South Dakota but, again, I was passing through on the way back from a music festival in Iowa.  My home is about 30 miles from the Pacific, in Washington.

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: cowboy on September 15, 2011, 01:57:19 pm

I've been all over south TX which is hundreds of miles but i was at work around there anyway. I did hit Ratzats place one time on the way through too. Would love to hit glass buttes one day but man that a long haul..

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: jonathan creason on September 15, 2011, 02:10:24 pm

My right hand reached all the way over to the mouse to click the "send" button on Paypal.

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: mullet on September 15, 2011, 11:06:43 pm

 From Houston on a Sunday morning at the butt crack of dawn, calling my guide, Cowboy, getting his  voicemail, on the way to to San Antonio and then west of there, calling Cowboy's voicemail ::), then turn around and head towards Laredo, calling Cowboy's voicemail :-\ , then found some rock in a corn field south of San Antonio, loaded up about 200# and headed back to Houston, got Cowboy's voicemail again. Made it back about 8 that night and three tanks of gas later. :o ;D

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: JustinNC on September 16, 2011, 01:23:25 am

Quote from: mullet on September 15, 2011, 11:06:43 pm

From Houston on a Sunday morning at the butt crack of dawn, calling my guide, Cowboy, getting his  voicemail, on the way to to San Antonio and then west of there, calling Cowboy's voicemail ::), then turn around and head towards Laredo, calling Cowboy's voicemail :-\ , then found some rock in a corn field south of San Antonio, loaded up about 200# and headed back to Houston, got Cowboy's voicemail again. Made it back about 8 that night and three tanks of gas later. :o ;D

damned senoritas

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Gus on September 16, 2011, 01:39:24 am

Not far yet, but will be heading to Freer and parts south by way of San Antone the end of the month.

Hopefully the rock gods will smile on my simple kiester.

-gus

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Tower on September 16, 2011, 01:50:39 am

Dad-gum & I thought that I was an addict! Ill pay half the gas if you swing bye & give me a lift!!!!!!!! How's about it Mullet?

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: stickbender on September 16, 2011, 02:44:17 am

     From Port ST. Lucie Florida, to Glass Buttes, by way of Burns Oregon, by way of Thompson Falls Montana. :P :P  Thenback and over to lakeland to share with my Dealer that got me hooked( Mullet ) and Claude VanOrder.  And I drove! :P

                                                                           Wayne

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: mullet on September 16, 2011, 09:21:50 am

Anytime, Tower as long as I don't get your voicemail. ;D

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: cowboy on September 16, 2011, 10:50:01 am

Now that's funny Eddie ;D. Think I'll squat the one ton and head to Florida if that'll help me live it down, haha...

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Will H on September 16, 2011, 12:05:05 pm

5 miles upstream in flip flops... :)

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: JustinNC on September 16, 2011, 12:12:16 pm

3rd base mostly. Several homers that weren't spectacular, but I make it to third base a LOT with a lot of heavy petting and fondling and sweet talking. Get it right where I want it ya know? Then always screw up something before really knocking it out of the park.

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: julieb on September 16, 2011, 12:22:04 pm

Hey any trips to Florida will have to include me....... ( and I answer my phone!)

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: mullet on September 16, 2011, 08:19:41 pm

 Maybe I need your phone number? ::) ;)

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Blacktail on September 17, 2011, 01:31:01 am

i forgot i posted this....you guys have put some miles on the tires...i was thinking about making a 8hr drive to eastern MT to get rock...

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on September 18, 2011, 02:01:45 am

Made a trip from SC to PA and brought some rock back with me years ago.

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: YosemiteBen on September 18, 2011, 01:58:24 pm

Well - between a full time job - raising grandkids and a honey-do list that never gets any shorter I never get to go anywhere that isn't work or family related and unfortunately most of those areas are not near any nice rock!  Thanks to the USPS for coming up with flat rate boxes and thanks to the folks who have used them to send me rock in Yosemite. Met a German Knapper years ago and he gifted me some flint from the Baltic Sea region in Europe. Some day I will get to do some traveling and see the places where all of your materials are coming from. Keep up the great works - teachers and learners! Ben

Title: Re: how far have you gone
Post by: Bill Skinner on September 22, 2011, 11:09:42 pm

About 5 hours.  Hey, does sitting neck deep in a creek, digging my hands in sand up to my elbows count?  Me and another fool did it for about 6 hours, the hard part was getting the buckets of rock up a 30 foot powder sand bank.  We got about 1000 pounds of Tallahatta.  Bill