After the completion of my primary goal on my last mission my team and I headed out on a few surveys to find new sites for excavation. Typically, this process started by getting touch with an individual who had previously contacted us about a site they knew about. Cell phone was the most common method of contact. The catch to this step was that it was quite often the case that the informant did not actually have a cell phone, but had given us the phone number of one of his cousins. This usually resulted in a one to two hour run around to track down the actual person we wanted to talk to. Once we found the correct individual they would lead us out into the jungle. Sometimes we got to drive on nice paved roads and enjoy views out over the valleys.
More frequently, however, we would quickly find ourselves off of the main roads, out in the boonies, doing some serious four-wheel driving.
At times it was a very frustrating process. We would be taken way off into the middle of no where and would be shown what turned out to be a Japanese plane. Worse, sometimes we would be lead to a place that a previous team had already excavated. The long hours in car on bad roads did pay off in the end. We were successful in locating a few new sites that may possibly be excavated in the future.
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