May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 58m
English

Photograph by Gregg Segal
The Scenario: Thinking you could use a new hobby to get you off the couch, your significant other gifts you with a metal detector for Christmas. After digging up loose change in your backyard and at the beach for a few weekends, you decide it’s time for a real prospecting adventure. So, after loading up your SUV with the metal detector, a pick, shovel, pry bar, and enough snacks and water for the day, you both drive 80 miles out into the desert to poke around some abandoned gold mines you’ve heard about.
Finally reaching the end of the road in the middle of nowhere, you ask your partner to ...