Or, at least Forrest Buffington thought so.
There were the nearly 200 pounds of rocks Forrest and his wife, Jan, collected that reminded of a special trip to Washington.
The flat, black rocks from Alaska that brought back laughs about how alarmed airport security was when they saw the dozens and dozens of stones in the couple’s luggage. Needless to say, they and their baggage were searched.
Or the buckets and buckets of petrified wood from a big field in North Dakota gathered on their final rock-collecting trip.
Now Forrest’s family is left to rummage through a shop filled with dozens of marked and unmarked buckets and containers of rocks collected throughout his lifetime. But, more heartbreakingly, they are left to tell the stone’s stories.
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