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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2012 01:14    Post subject: Re: Prices again  

Louis Friend wrote:

I will visit Tucson one day but not for a few years. My wife and children have other ideas about what to see in America, and a mineral show is not one of them. They appreciate my interest in mineralogy but Disney Land and the Grand Canyon are higher up on the list of things to do.


Dear Louis,

I have visited the USA and the Tucson-shows a number of times with my family including small children. and they have loved it. But minerals have to be only a small part of it. You can visit the shows a couple of days early during the shows and go looking for minerals while the family is recovering from the jet-lag- Then you can make it a "tourist-week" going by car to i.e. San Diego and Disney-land. You can continue past LA and up the old highway 1 towards San Fransisco watching sea-lions and beautiful scenery. If the weather permits, it is possible to continue back east including a visit to the Grand Canyon before returning south to Tucson and the Main Show. I am sure also your family will enjoy such a trip ! My children have enjoyed it so much they even want to go back to Tucson with me now in their 20`ies.

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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2012 08:14    Post subject: Re: Prices again  

Hi to everybody!
Let me have an opinion too: good specimens are available on every price, even affordable! I always attend to the Munich mineral show and I saw every kind of specimen on every kind of price! Then, of course every stone has its quality and therefore its price, but I found for example small diamonds (you read well, DIAMONDS!!!) sold for some 10 or 20 €!
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PostPosted: Mar 26, 2012 23:22    Post subject: Re: Prices again  

keldjarn wrote:
Louis Friend wrote:

I will visit Tucson one day but not for a few years. My wife and children have other ideas about what to see in America, and a mineral show is not one of them. They appreciate my interest in mineralogy but Disney Land and the Grand Canyon are higher up on the list of things to do.


Dear Louis,

I have visited the USA and the Tucson-shows a number of times with my family including small children. and they have loved it. But minerals have to be only a small part of it. You can visit the shows a couple of days early during the shows and go looking for minerals while the family is recovering from the jet-lag- Then you can make it a "tourist-week" going by car to i.e. San Diego and Disney-land. You can continue past LA and up the old highway 1 towards San Fransisco watching sea-lions and beautiful scenery. If the weather permits, it is possible to continue back east including a visit to the Grand Canyon before returning south to Tucson and the Main Show. I am sure also your family will enjoy such a trip ! My children have enjoyed it so much they even want to go back to Tucson with me now in their 20`ies.

Knut


Dear keldjarn:

Many thanks for your enthusiastic comments about Tucson. I have reviewed at length the current and past reports from several prominent FMF contributors and also from some subscribers to the Vug and if I had to choose between the Munich Show and Tucson Show, I would take Munich. This is no way implies Munich is “better” than Tucson, it is just that there are many other things I would like to do in America - visit friends, catch up with old College buddies and “hang out” with relatives. Munich would also provide me with the opportunity to visit either Bulgaria or Morocco or both and I could then connect directly with miners/mine managers and perhaps buy some “killer specimens” at very affordable prices.

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