Author Topic: My Rocks (Read 9364 times)

ShadowBrain · « **on:** July 05, 2008, 01:09:57 PM »

My dad loves to travel and we manage to make enough money as a family to do so. Thus, I got this idea. I have taken several rocks and written my name (Trevor White) on one side and the name of a continent on the other (in the case of the United States, I have Eastern and Western US. Antartica is absent because I ran out of decent rocks). I have been to many of the continents on these rocks already, but I think I will again in the future. When I go to one of these places, I will leave a rock and take a picture of its location. Then, not only will my name be literally all over the world, but others can seek out my rocks and maybe do the same thing themselves!

Glorb · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2008, 02:36:47 PM »

I scratch my name on walls and pee into every water source everywhere I go.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2008, 02:55:17 PM »

There's a wooden Noah's Ark somewhere near Amish country in Pennsylvania with "Jesse, Brad, and Adam: Real Pirates" carved into it.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:41:02 AM »

Quote from: Glorb on July 05, 2008, 02:36:47 PM

I scratch my name on walls and pee into every water source everywhere I go.

That would be one of the "unsavory things" you do, right?

Glorb · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2008, 12:42:43 PM »

I thought it was a quite desirable trait.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #5 on:** August 06, 2008, 07:36:59 AM »

I return! Pictures forthcoming.

DeadAwake · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2008, 08:23:47 PM »

Wow! You already went somewhere?

You should do something like this... were it not for the lack of originality, having copied someone who copied a movie.

nensondubois · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2008, 08:30:52 PM »

Quote from: Turtlekid1 on July 06, 2008, 11:41:02 AM

That would be one of the "unsavory things" you do, right?

Hey! I also do that!

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2008, 09:30:51 AM »

Pictures at last!

The Eiffel Tower in France, of course. I left it on the ground some hundred yards ahead of it with a good view.

Behind an African waterfall. That gray lump in picture two is the rock.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 21, 2008, 12:07:03 PM »

Very scenic, but there's some guy who jumped into the photos at the last second!
But seriously, you're lucky to have gone to those places.

Koopaslaya · « **Reply #10 on:** August 21, 2008, 12:09:56 PM »

If customs officials get you, you could face a federal offense for tampering with natural things, or something.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #11 on:** August 21, 2008, 01:45:55 PM »

I don't think you have to declare rocks. Besides, I think all of these were potential skipping rocks (which, of course, you never actually skip when they're really good) I found near bodies of water, so they could've all come from Ethiopia for all I know.

nensondubois · « **Reply #12 on:** August 21, 2008, 01:54:57 PM »

Yellow rocks are best.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #13 on:** September 25, 2009, 07:35:37 PM »

Rock #3 has finally been placed--in North America! (Linked because of largeness and my computer's inability to feasibly load Photobucket editation pages)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/Trevornater/IMG_0028.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/Trevornater/IMG_0030.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/Trevornater/IMG_0031.jpg

Yes, I could've done it anywhere, but I wanted it to be in a unique, natural place, and where better than near Mt. St. Helens on a 20-mile Boy Scouts-related hike?

dc804 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 25, 2009, 08:36:21 PM »

Pretty cool. I would like to do something like this one day. Can you put a rock in Michigan.

Weegee · « **Reply #15 on:** September 25, 2009, 08:41:03 PM »

I'd have sworn that Dc was going to comment about "rocks" probably meaning something vulgar over in Britain.

Mr. Wiggles · « **Reply #16 on:** September 25, 2009, 08:43:36 PM »

You look like my Art History teacher from this and last semester.

Except your hair seems more controlled than his does.

coolkid · « **Reply #17 on:** October 09, 2009, 05:50:34 PM »

-insert obligatory immature joke about the topic title here-

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 09, 2009, 05:56:52 PM »

I second dc's motion to put one in the mitten.

Wow, that looks dirty when you read it.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #19 on:** October 09, 2009, 07:36:27 PM »

One in the mitten, two in the kitten

Glorb · « **Reply #20 on:** October 10, 2009, 05:11:46 AM »

I got it.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #21 on:** October 11, 2009, 07:59:27 PM »

Quote from: Lizard Dude on October 09, 2009, 07:36:27 PM

One in the mitten, two in the kitten

Now you tell me.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #22 on:** October 11, 2009, 10:53:04 PM »

Ugh...

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #23 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:25:24 PM »

Rock #4 has finally found a home! The location: Under a rock at Uluru in the Australian outback.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:29:49 PM »

This is really cool. I don't know why I haven't said that before.

Weegee · « **Reply #25 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:53:05 PM »

Mark my words: Those rocks are covered in foreign micro-organisms that will quickly destroy each continents' ecological balance, allowing rock-people to evolve and overtake humanity as this planet's dominant species.

By the way, where exactly in Africa did you place that rock behind a waterfall?

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #26 on:** July 14, 2010, 08:55:36 PM »

Well, in was in Malawi, Africa, and I'm sorry to say I can't remember much more than that. I know it's a place where natives used to hide from slave traders, though.

Luigison · « **Reply #27 on:** July 15, 2010, 11:33:53 AM »

This is really cool. I don't know why I hadn't noticed it before. Anyway, I have a great aunt that collected rocks from various places she visited around the United States. She wrote the two letter abbreviations for the state each came from and put them in her rock garden/flower bed.

Hopefully one day you can get a picture of you putting a rock here. (Anyone have a list of everyone from the forums that's done that?)

nensondubois · « **Reply #28 on:** July 15, 2010, 02:32:49 PM »

I only have one rock from the Guadalupe River in Texas, and was a rather spontaneous to grab it from the bottom of the river. I don't usually collect rocks.

A · « **Reply #29 on:** June 08, 2011, 09:41:37 PM »

Whoa. This is pretty neato.

Any updates? How many continents left? and will you go to Antarctica if possible?

Hopefully you live long enough to put one on the moon too.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #30 on:** June 09, 2011, 02:59:05 PM »

Nope, no new continents so far. As for Antarctica, I passed up the opportunity during Freshman year while my brother and dad went, because my grades were in pretty bad shape (and besides, I wasn't that interested to begin with). Still, I can't eliminate the possibility--in fact, with the exception of South America (and technically Asia--I've been there, but I never left a rock), that's all I've got left.