CNN How I was influenced by Raiders

[Jackson]

WOW my story made it!!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-582467

Thanks Indy!!

Jackson

[Nurhachi1991]

so your a legit archeologist?

[Jackson]

I dont really call myself a archeaologist in the legit sense if I were I would never leave the classroom or the library.. Indiana Jones himself was not a legit archeaologist. Think opening shot of Raiders. Think going into the sacred temple of a native culture and stealing there most sacred treasure. In modern archeaology they call people like him grave robbers and looters or treasure hunters. I did start out as a treasure hunter but that changed.
ITs become a great quest with no end. Its mankinds last great adventure.
Its to big to be put in a box..Indiana Jones was WAY more than a archeaologist as well.
I respect history because searching gets you in touch with it in way that cant be experinced in a book or in virtual world .
After seeing a crashed B25 bomber, Finding gold in my gold pan, climbing into a old mine shaft, walking on top of the temples of tikal. Reaching my hand into the hole where the Mitchell Hedges skull was found at Lubantuun. Digging for pirate treasure, and crashing on a mountain top in a helicopter. (ITS ALL TRUE)

So
experince,friendships,adventure and history become the treasure you find on the way. Its not about the gold. But you do need some gold to survive so finding some is always nice. But gold takes many,many forms. So am I a legit archeaologist? If you judge me by a degree I am suppost to have from a university I am supposed to have gone to. NO I am not. But if you judge me by my actions and by my search and by the record I have tried to make of it. Then yes I am..

Jackson

[Nurhachi1991]

Indy was a legit archeologist in the sense that he had a PhD and taught archeology and was paid by the school.


But you my friend are living the dream that I had the fisrt time I saw Raiders as well.... My whole life I wanted to become an Archaeologist but when I went to college I found out that it was alot different than I dreamnt it. But you on the other hand are living proof that adventures are still waiting to be had.... I would really like to hear some more stories!

[Jackson]

Thank you so much and it makes me really happy that you like some of my adventures and my writing. They are not that hard to have. You just have to jump of the cliff and go for it. Like Indy in the Last Crusade looking at the abyss in the grail temple. You must believe. If you want adventure there is tons out there. Take up the gold pan and go in search of gold as a place to start as its THE LAST great adventure.. Archeaology is not the path to adventure.. Its the path to school and the library.. and if you want to be a good archeaologist you have to get out of there as the man would say. BE a maverick archeaologist. YOu dont need a degree. YOu need information and what age do you live in? You will still find yourself digging through old archives once in awhile and chasing books in the library like they are gold nuggets...Go find a lost treasure or treasure lead in a huge university library somewhere that has not yet been on the internet or that is hiding in some book waiting to be discovered by the right eyes... THere is so much to search for. It shouldnt be so difffcult for lucas and spielberg to find some for Indiana to search for... Have him go broke and need to find something to make his morgage payment.. force him look for Treasure as he did in Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth I think it was when he looked for gold in NEw MExico using the book Cornados Children which is a classic of lost treasure lore... Anyway, going of topic here. Glad you like the adventures. THis story below is the closet I ever got to discovering the pie in the sky.
www.spindlequest.com/buriedtreasure.html

Fortune and Glory kid, Fortune and glory
-Indiana Jones