Skunked Roadtrip

[stoney56]

We decided to take a drive to check out an area that I had researched. After returning home after a 270 mi round trip (didn't even take the detectors out of the Jeep), we learned that what you see isn't necessarily what you get.

But in 1927, it was the wildest, most wicked oil boomtown in the state. A huge gusher made a poor farmer a millionaire overnight and people came here from everywhere looking for work. The town couldn't be built fast enough.


The 1st couple of pics are what I researched and thought it might make an interesting site to check on. The following pics are what we saw when we arrived. The area had extra fencing around it and the owners weren't at home. Even though there wasn't any "No Tresspassing" signs anywhere, we weren't about to find a way in on either side of the road.

At least when you get skunked this way, you don't have to buy up a bunch of tomato juice.

 

[{Sentinel}]

That is a REALLY cool tidbit of history!!!! Thanks for posting

 

[desertfox]

Stoney, when you go back it looks like you better take your lawn mower, tractor and brush hog with you and cut a deal with the land owners.... Sounds like a good place to hunt if you get permission. Good luck and HH

Desertfox

 

[The Seeker]

Thats a bummer..........Good luck on your next adventure!

 

[stoney56]

Stoney, when you go back it looks like you better take your lawn mower, tractor and brush hog with you and cut a deal with the land owners.... Sounds like a good place to hunt if you get permission. Good luck and HH

Desertfox

The ranch (owners) across the road is nice and the area all around is well taken care of. They have left this "island of weeds" on purpose to keep people out IMO. I'll just make a notation in my files and move on. Too many places--too little time.

 

[birdman]

Stony, Nice pictures and history lession. I am sure there are lots of goodies in the ground.

 

[ModernMiner]

Stoney,
Sorry to hear you had to travel that far and be disappointed. That is a bummer.
Thanks for sharing the pictures and history with us though.
Better luck on the next site.
-MM-

 

[melnatcat]

DANG! Woulda been a cool site to hunt! Nice pics! Yea went hunting for some leads not far from here and they ended up to be corners on the highway....nothing to hunt.

Most everything around here is starting to get 'hunted out', so I have to travel a little farther from home each time and hope that I could at least recover a little gas $...LOL

HH Melnatcat

 

[weasel606]

Bummer you couldnt hunt but it was an interesting story, thanks

 

[Mental Granny]

Oh! But it was a fun day even if we didn't get to hunt here, just the drive was great.

 

[UnEarthed72]

Well at least it sounds like you both had some well spent quality time together which in itself is priceless.

 

[Mirage]

Yeah, it seems about 1 out of every (4) leads turn out to nothing. It's that 5th lead that is the jackpot. Of course it could be every 1 out of 2 but I doubt many others have those odds...

 

[piggman1]

At least when you get skunked this way, you don't have to buy up a bunch of tomato juice.

That wasn't meant for me now was it? Sorry to hear you couldn't get in, there's a few places like that around here, but most of the owners won't let you on because people in the past messed it up for everyone.

 

[stoney56]

At least when you get skunked this way, you don't have to buy up a bunch of tomato juice.

That wasn't meant for me now was it? Sorry to hear you couldn't get in, there's a few places like that around here, but most of the owners won't let you on because people in the past messed it up for everyone.

No piggman, it wasn't meant for you. We have places like that around here too that someone screwed up. I'm not forgetting about it, just put it on the back burner for now.

Mirage, it's not that it turned to nothing. It's just that I have over 8 sites now and at least 5 have never had a detector used on them, to my knowledge. That's why the so many places and so little time comment.

 

[Rob66]

Looks good to me...thanks for the pics
RD

 

[Montana Jim]

Stoney - Good attitude about too many other places... just get to the next one!

Better luck on your next adventure... I look forward to more finds and pics...

Jim

 

[ashleen]

I have over 8 sites now and at least 5 have never had a detector used on them

cool 8)
onward and upward

 

[mastereagle22]

You never know until you try. Hang in there and thanks for the post.

 

[Green1]

next trip will be a killer..........

 

[deepskyal]

Ive taken a couple road trips in the last couple weekends...trying to get out of the worked over city..into a historical era.

Research is great but until you actually see what your gettin into...it's all a gamble.

My drives were easily 3 hours one way one weekend, 2 hour drive the next weekend. First weekend, like you, never even got my machine out.
Second weekend got hit with a stomach thing just as I started detecting, 15 minutes and i was runnin for the car.

Oh well...you win some, you lose some.

i too have a couple neat spots close to home I know nobody hit, old foundations from highway construction still hidden in the woods. Guess i'll hit them for a while and save for another road trip.
Al