The Wara Formation

I just posted my most unusual sand sample. It was given to me by a person I had as a student teacher MANY years ago. We went to the same college, UMass Boston, took the same courses, and had the same profs. He was a great teacher, and really wanted to be one, but there weren't any jobs. In fact, people were losing their jobs because of a new tax restructuring program called "2 1/2" where taxes could not be raised more than that percentage each year. As a result, jobs were lost. He answered an ad in the Boston Globe from a Texas oil company. He responded, got the job, and discovered it was in Saudi Arabia! He was 22, so he decided to give it a try. You lived for four weeks at the drill site, then they gave you the price of a first class round trip ticket home for two weeks. He never went home! Instead, he traveled the world on the cheap! Everytime he came home, which was rare, he laways brought me sand samples from where he had been. The strangest was from the drill site. This was sand that was created by the drill at 2,000 ft down! He also brought me back a section of a drill core. He stayed in Saudi for two two-year tours, then he was allowed to pick his spot anyplace else in the world. I lost track of him, so I don't know where he went. I shared this story with my students for probably close to 30 years.

Clear Skies,

Charlie