Adventure: The Why?
Greg Hawk • April 2, 2020
The adventures in the book are just a few of the adventures that I experienced in life.
The adventures in “Random Tangents: Embracing Adventures in Life” are just a few of the adventures that I experienced in life. I know a lot of people couldn’t live the way I have, but if you take and make one adventure happen each year then it won’t be long before you too are looking back over your life of adventures and the memories that went with them.
Whether I was in Australia scuba diving and seeking out new dive spots while meeting different people from all over the world or in the American Southwest hiking in the deserts and mountains chasing some treasure story, it was all about painting a tapestry in my life filled with experiences while learning about myself.
If you want to experience nature, the stars on a clear night and breathing the desert or mountain air then escape for a few days to savor the experience. Disconnect from your social network and focus on the now, the present, that Mother Earth and the Universe has to offer you. There is so much to experience if you quiet your mind and listen, smell and feel the wind pass you by.

A lost ledge of gold and the prospector who found it but wasn't able to return. The marker he left was his vest with a mule shoe on top of it to mark the spot. This story takes place around 1900 along the Colorado River about 25 to 30 miles north of Yuma, Arizona on the California side of the river at a place called Picacho. A man searched for it for over 20 years and never found it, can you?

This is the story of a stagecoach robbery that was printed in the March-April edition of Westerner Magazine in 1974.
It took place south of Beale Springs and supposedly $200,000 worth of gold bullion was heisted from the stagecoach and the stagecoach disappeared after the robbery never to be found until 40 years later.

A visit to gold country in Northern California. A subscriber to my YouTube channel contacted me about a mine he had a claim on in Arizona and also some mines close to where he purchased property in Glencoe, CA. Being a Vietnam Vet, as I am, I decided to meet up with him and look at the mines he was curious about in California. We had lunch in the town of Mokelumne Hill which was located in rich placer gold country during the 1849 gold rush.
The following pictures I took in 2017 after several years of looking for the Lost Ivanpah Mine, which was a story that was told to me by John whom I mentioned in my book. I had searched for this prospect for several years in my spare time and camped out in the dry lakebed while I searched. Finally, on the last day of searching, before I was going to give up on it, I went up a really rough wash to an area higher than I had been before. Here I found the old prospect hole where Miguel had been digging. Beside it was an old tin bucket and what looked to be a cigarette tin. They had been sitting here for approximately 110 years when I found them as Miguel died around 1906. For more on this check out the video: The Lost Ivanpah Silver Mine

This is a day trip we took through the Bradshaw Mountains starting from Mayer and driving the Senator Highway to Palace Station. Once there we took the Bodie Mine Road until it forked off and we proceeded to the left on the Trails End Mine Road to the mine. We will take you to the mine and to where they processed ore until 1997. Four-wheel drive will be needed to traverse some of the road or what's left of it.