We are on the move today from Tucson to Bullhead City in Arizona. En route, we stop in the quirky little town of Quartzite, Arizona to visit T-Rocks, a geologists’ mecca!

Oh my, what an amazing selection of raw and polished crystals, minerals, fossils, petrified wood, glass and so much more! One can purchase Geodes that can be cracked for you on site!

Not that we are shopping for anything, but we buy a piece of Madagascar petrified wood which was once-living wood which has now been turned to stone. When the wood is buried under mud, sand and volcanic ash, solutions dissolved in the groundwater slowly infiltrate its cells, and by a complex chemical process which takes place over millions of years, the wood is replaced by the mineral quartz.

We also buy a Trilobite fossil! A Trilobite was a bug-like animal with a soft segmented body held together by an external skeleton. It roamed the oceans for over 270 million years but became extinct during the Paleozoic Era, 240 million years ago!

The quirky part of Quartzite is found in the Reader’s Oasis Bookstore which is owned by an ageing hippy gentleman called Paul Winer who wanders around his shop, and the town, wearing only a thong! As we were in the motor home and towing the jeep, we were unable to get into the car park to visit and so, no photo … perhaps that is a good thing!

Nothing like a piece of fossilized dinosaur dung to adorn your home!