The Fisherman
Another year has gone by with no one finding his hidden treasure, but there’s a great tribute to him over on Dal’s site.
Wishing him many, many more years of “not missing his turn.”
Happy 85th Birthday, Forrest Fenn!
5 Most Searched Lost Treasures in The World
Something to do after the Fenn treasure is found?
1 – City of Paititi
Much like El Dorado or Atlantis, Paititi is a legendary hidden city that is rumored to be located in the southeastern part of Peru. The legend of the city of Paititi says that the Incas used this city to keep their treasures hidden from the Spanish. Most people took the stories about Paititi just to be legends until it was likely discovered east of the Andes Mountains.
2 – Patiala Necklace
Made for the reigning Maharaja of Patiala at the time, the House of Cartier designed this 234.65 karat diamond necklace in 1928. This massive and ridiculously expensive necklace held over 2,900 diamonds and several Burmese rubies. Twenty years after the necklace was designed it disappeared. Thirty-four years after the necklace’s mysterious vanishing it reappeared at an auction in Geneva, Switzerland. When the necklace was found once again in 1998 it was missing a few…
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Buried Treasure
Cute.
Feeling “smarter than the average squirrel?”
Discovering a real Jurassic Park
What a cool opportunity!
A ranch. Somewhere high in north-western Montana. We’re fly fishing in the baking heat, casting for trout, listening to the trickle of clear spring creeks and glimpsing sleek, fast-moving shapes in the shadows.
It should be relaxing, but I’m distracted. I discovered in a chance conversation with the rancher’s wife earlier in the morning that at least two dinosaurs are entombed in rock on their land and she promised a ride to where the university volunteers are digging – and spending the long scorching summer.
“Yeah, they’re all living up there in the rocks, right beside the rattlers,” said the woman with a real life Jurassic Park on her land. “Someone flew over the ranch in a hang glider years ago and discovered the site and they’ve been working on it on and off ever since.”
The Jeep bounced, rattled and shuddered its way over a track more suited to cowboys…
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Catching Up is Hard to Do (hum to the tune by Neil Sedaka)
Time on the water, priceless. Home again? Also priceless, but busy. I was north. I was east. Was I west, “in the mountains somewhere north of Santa Fe?” No, darn it. Not yet. But this bronze reminded me of the drawing in the Thrill of the Chase book.
Another great thing about the road trip? Listening to the audio version of The Black Count, a true story about Alexandre Dumas’ pere by Tom Reiss. Fascinating. The Count of Monte Cristo was one of my first favorites. I read an old copy found in the attic. Next best was the 1998 French miniseries of it starring Gerard Depardieu. I didn’t mind the subtitles, it was so engrossing. And now to learn how so much of it was based on his own father’s experiences (including hidden treasure), enlightening. Also, it explained a lot of the history of the French revolution/devolution/rise of Napoleon, areas my education was thin on.
Minnetrista
So, my treasures when I arrived home? A lawn turned to meadow, wild blackberries to forage, and a garden exploding with cukes, beans, and tomatos, etc. Now that the pickles and jams are in the cupboard and the beans and tomatos in the freezer, except for the awesome salads Caprese and salsa verdes and, well, you get the idea.
Jungle garden
Intrepid came to visit and fortunately she loves to pick berries, dig potatos, etc., just happy to be outdoors. She’s begun her fourth (and purportedly toughest) year of residency. Six twelve hours days on for a month, then six twelve hour nights for a month, then same at a different hospital, rinse, wash, repeat…. I’d help her if I could. The least I can do is give her organic veggies. 
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170-Year-Old Champagne Recovered (and Tasted) From a Baltic Shipwreck
Worth the cold — the bottles auctioned at up to 100,000 Euros.
The term “vintage” may now have a whole new meaning for wine lovers—a treasure trove of 170-year-old champagne has been unearthed from the bottom of the sea. In 2010, a group of divers in the Baltic Sea happened upon the remains of a sunken trade schooner just off the coast of Finland. Scattered amongst the wreckage 160 feet below the surface, they discovered a treasure sent from Dionysus himself—168 bottles of French bubbly that had aged in near perfect conditions for decades.
Although the local government ultimately claimed the bottles, a team of scientists led by Philippe Jeandet, a professor of food biochemistry at the University of Reims, was able to obtain a small sample of the preserved beverage for testing—and tasting. Their chemical and sensory analysis, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides a unique lens into the past, offering information about conventional winemaking…
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A Fresh Interview with Forrest Fenn
Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Chest
Click on this link for a TV reporter’s interview with the man who hid the treasure.
Mr. Fenn signing my TTOTC.
Ringing Rocks, Pennsylvania
“Hear me all and listen good. . . “
The odd and the obscure have always fascinated me. As have mysteries. When I was younger, I fantasized about driving around the country in a van with close friends of mine solving mysteries like in “Scooby Doo,” but in our case, we would prove the mysteries to be true, or so I thought. We even did a little bit of this around Washington, DC, where as teenagers we investigated urban legends of Goatman, Boaman, and local sightings of Bigfoot. We never saw anything, but got ourselves pretty scared. Well, it’s hard to be scared of by rocks, but rocks that ring for no reason is intriguing, and so on two separate occasions, I made my way with friends to this quiet corner of Southeastern Pennsylvania to experience the eerie sounds of ringing rocks, one of only a handful of places in the world where such phenomena exists.
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Do, do, do, looking out my backdoor…. (CCR)
Red moon
For a very cool montage of Forrest Fenn created by Iron Will, see this over on Dal’s blog— http://dalneitzel.com/2015/04/04/scrapbook-one-hundred-thirty-five/#comments
Another winter gone and I haven’t gotten any closer to the solve. Still pondering. . . .
From a former back door…
Maybe I need one of these tools:
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Archaeological Application of Thermal Imagery Sensors on Drones
Ruh roh. . . .
The Fenn Diagrams 
