Texas Meteorite Expedition: Daily Journal Feb 22-24

West Texas Meteorite Expedition. Here’s an update of the past few days:

Feb 21

Day 0: Sick with cold after planning trip and raising funds for expedition. Trip postponed for 24 hrs

Feb 22, 10:00 am

Day 1: Started out for Texas. Driving non-stop from San Diego, CA. Google maps said 19hrs 48mins. They lied! lol

Feb 23 5:30 am local time Abilene TX

Day 3:  After driving 1200 miles straight without rest, we stopped in a rest area just outside Abilene TX and napped for about 3 hours. We woke up about 9am and continued on toward West, TX . We arrived in West at about 1:30pm local time. We did some quick preliminary searching in a prediefined search area and then check in to our cabin at the local KOA campground. We could have stayed in a hotel in Waco but liked the idea of being closer to the strewnfield.

Around 3 pm we arrived at the spot where the first meteorite was located. We of course searched the area again hoping something might have been missed… lol Fat chance. Professional hunters had been through here and had no less than 7 days to search this area thoroughly.

We met up with Ruben Garcia and Mike Miller and after showing us their new finds and and speaking with a local landowner they were off. We hunted a local field with permission from the landowner until dark with no finds and called it a day.

Feb 24th 5am

Day 4: Up early… Hunting…