Woo hoo!

[joegoda]

The Great Salt Plains of Oklahoma are now open and Selenite crystal digging at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge resumed on April 25, 2009. How very cool is that!

I'm not traveling out there this weekend. There are craaaazy drivers on the road! But soon... very, very soon.

Anyone interested can visit the site here: http://www.touroklahoma.com/detail.asp?id=1%2B5U%2B3596

Comments

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

(This is what I posted on Shae's journal entry)

One word...

Sunscreen.

Lots and lots and *lots* of it.

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Selenite is a form of salt crystal, and the area around Jet is a huge salt sands flat. With no shade - anywhere. In the middle of Oklahoma.

Riley and I visited there one fine summer day many years ago (after visiting his grandmother, who lived in Pond Creek, not terribly far from there). We found some awesome crystals and really enjoyed seeing the place.

However...

We both still have scars from the sunburn we got (sunscreen - what's that? We don't need no stinkin' sunscreen...). I was so badly burned on both legs that I could not stand the idea of putting pantyhose on them. So I went to church the next morning in pants.

A Southern Baptist Church. In the middle of Oklahoma. In the mid 1970s. And my uncle was the preacher (which may have been the only thing that saved me from a stoning...).

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It's an interesting place. But don't forget the sunscreen.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

And we both know that it's a wonderful paraphrased quote from a Baz Luhrmann song.

Yeah, I tend to wear Jeans and Boots out in the wild, specially when the wild is mostly white salty sand. And hat. And face scarf, cuz this is Oklahoma and them winds do whip across the plain. Color me Lawrence of Oklahoma. I'd rather sweat than sizzle. Sweat evaporates and cools. Thanks for the warning, Sister Becky! Poor Riley. I bet his hands are bout as sore as can be.

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

We both wore shorts that day - short-shorts, in fact. And short-sleeved shirts.

I think we had hats; if not, we were bent over digging enough that the top of our heads did not get nearly as much sun as our backs and the backs of our legs.

Sizzle is a pretty good way to describe what my legs and his back did. But we did find some awesome crystals.

[decembertyger.livejournal.com]

Hope it wasn't something I did :) Thanks for the link and enjoy your life :)

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Nope. Nothing you did, m'dear. Hope you get to feeling better.