Adventure - that's what its all about! Yesterday I was 22 years old and today I'm 52.
I can still pull up memories like they were yesterday and yet I still have the drive to look
over the next hill. My first nugget was pulled out of the YUBA river about 2 o'clock.
I was using a snorkle in about 5 feet of water. It was just a little crack - maybe about
the size of a pencil line. As I picked at that crack, it became larger and more promising.
I surfaced and gave some details to my friend, Kenny. He handed me his beer, then the hand pump and wished me luck. I filled my lungs with fresh mountain air and returned to
my crack. Using the water pump, I injected its fury into the hole. I was met with a veil of
of light gray silt which quickly dissipated its life to the river. Once again I
pumped a jet of pressure into that crack and out came that dancing nugget! It did a little
jig, then settled onto that white rock that held it prisoner for eons. It took me a couple of
seconds to respond to this visual onslaught of sheer joy. I screamed out as loud as I
could "Right fkn ON"! I snatched that nugget off its white pedestal, ripped my snorkle from my face, put that yellow God-like rock into my mouth and bit it! What Kenny observed was a low rumble of sound followed by a ballistic rocket being launched from the depths below him. YAHOO!! CHECK IT OUT! FU@#ING A DUDE! Gold!
Like the rock, its my prisoner now!
Here it is!
I can still pull up memories like they were yesterday and yet I still have the drive to look
over the next hill. My first nugget was pulled out of the YUBA river about 2 o'clock.
I was using a snorkle in about 5 feet of water. It was just a little crack - maybe about
the size of a pencil line. As I picked at that crack, it became larger and more promising.
I surfaced and gave some details to my friend, Kenny. He handed me his beer, then the hand pump and wished me luck. I filled my lungs with fresh mountain air and returned to
my crack. Using the water pump, I injected its fury into the hole. I was met with a veil of
of light gray silt which quickly dissipated its life to the river. Once again I
pumped a jet of pressure into that crack and out came that dancing nugget! It did a little
jig, then settled onto that white rock that held it prisoner for eons. It took me a couple of
seconds to respond to this visual onslaught of sheer joy. I screamed out as loud as I
could "Right fkn ON"! I snatched that nugget off its white pedestal, ripped my snorkle from my face, put that yellow God-like rock into my mouth and bit it! What Kenny observed was a low rumble of sound followed by a ballistic rocket being launched from the depths below him. YAHOO!! CHECK IT OUT! FU@#ING A DUDE! Gold!
Like the rock, its my prisoner now!
Here it is!
Adventures
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If you like this adventure then there is more.
