One way to beat cabin fever...

If you live near saltwater shores remember they never freeze and you won't have much company and basically the place to yourselves..

Took the gamblers bus to Atlantic city for 10 years and may hold the record for trips for a non gambler. Got silver back to seated and even a 1781 Realle and some nice gold items. Spent 5 hours or so on the beach, used the gambling money given by the casino for a nice meal and sure beats watching the boob tube...Been a while and they used quarters then but now its all paper chits to use on slots instead of lunch and of course carry on baggage may have changed so check it out before you embark. After driving for 30 years just sat back and let the driving to a competent bus driver. Certainly a long day and diabetic legs can't take the abuse anymore but try it as you may like it.

Never thought to much of gambling myself Dan, never been to Atlantic City, is it a big beach area to detect, do you break your detector down for the bus ride? Take care of that diabeties i know you will! HH

Roy haven't did it in years as its a 3hr bus ride and my legs can't take the cramping ride...Actually years ago was a good deal as I got a 6 hr. bus ride, good meal for about 20 bucks..plus 5-6 hrs on the beach....Of course times have changed relative take on luggage and rebates is now a paper chit where you have to gamble the bucks not use them for a nice meal. More beach area than you could cover and of course tides change and bring in keepers. You need a 3 piece unit you can break down and an analog CZ fit the bill. When the tides were right 10-20 silver coins plus clad were the norm and a gold item now and then...plus a lot of foreign coins as visitors come from afar...unfortunately tides and caustic salt water did a job on the silver coins but the gold items were like they were dropped....Dress warm with good water resistant gloves and footwear and beat cabin fever....OH for the good old days.....

Thanks for the info and advice Dan as I was born in July that would be another way 2 beat the "ole" cabin fever?

Ya know, I have read Laura Ingalls Wilder set of "Little House" books (from which the Little House on the Prairie TV show was taken) And I read one particu;ar book called "THE LONG WINTER". In it, Laura, writing from a child's persepctive, but still remaining VERY accurate to the facts of everyday frontier life, wriets about a particularly BAD winter that they had on the Dakota Prairies. There were blizzards that lasted 5 to 7 days. The Blizzard would stop, and then start again. Laura said that a Blizzard first started when you saw a weird cloud in the Northwest, and then a sudden rush of wind against their house that would shake it's very foundations. Then a blinding, stinging, grainy, snow would start. They ran out of firewood and started rolling up hay into tight balls to burn in the stove. They ran out of food. They got to grinding up seed wheat (for the following spring planting) in a coffee grinder....enough to bake one loaf of bread that the family would live on for one day. Just bread (with alot of kernals still whole...talk about 'whole wheat bread!) and melted snow for water.
For a Tennessee boy, I read about those Northern winters with plain AWE! They had cabin fever so bad that they were hallucinating and where just numb to feeling anything about another person. I just cannot imagine. But after reading that book....I certainly feel for you guys and gals who have to contend with Northern winters and blizzards. Wintertime around here (down South) are usually when we have access to more land to hunt once deer season is over (January 10 for Tennessee). Then we can hit the spring fed streams and branches looking for OLD homeplaces and Civil War camps. They were all over our county. I have stumbled into one in a cow pasture and you would have never thought that anything had been there. But my Teknetics G2 started hitting iron. I dug a piece up. A square nail! And then flat buttons, round balls, a brass thimble, a sterling thimble, 69 cal Minie balls, alot of little leather strap horse tackle buckles. (the little square ones).

Nice little write-up Kevin maybee you should review books for a living? Did'nt know there was a book for that series makes sense though. I have never hunted in Civil War era area sounds like fun! HH