Hey everyone,

My name is Derek I am a traveling content creator in search of gold! My journey is winding and involves a lot of different states and a few different countries. Currently I am in California and I'm always looking to meet new people and friends so we can go look for some color together! I am in Fresno currently where I flew in at as I write this post.

My current plan is I am headed towards Golden Eagle to camp out there for a duration and work the claim. I recently joined GPAA because I was advised to by a friend in a Facebook group because it was a great community and a bunch of claims you could work all over the place so why not right!

I am currently equipped to Pan, and Snipe, I work the water a lot but if you have equipment and want help running it I'm not apposed to that either. I have sluiced, metal detected in Australia and rock hounded a bunch for opals and such. Anything past that isn't unknown to me but its not something I frequently do and I'm sure willing to learn. I'm not a know it all and I've mostly done it a few times a year for the past 20 years depending on where I was living at the time. Only the in the past 2 years have I got serious about it and its paid off so far. So anything you want to show me I listen. I'm a team player and want us to benefit the most from bringing our skills to the collective to achieve a goal.

What I would like is to meet some GPAA members and we can go out searching together. I do this full time so I have much more time to search but I would love to see some friendly faces. I will keep this thread going with updates on my location and my plans as I travel, feel free to slip in a word if you want to meet up and prospect.

If you are wondering about my content or wanting to get to know me a bit more feel free to check out my channels, I have mainly been posting to Tiktok but I repost on Instagram, Facebook, and I'm working on getting the Youtube going and encouraging my followers to see my content there as well. I will be posting plenty of content in the coming months including my trip to Nicaragua to hunt for gold there during the winter.

If that is something you are interested my handle is either FindingRealMeaning with no spaces or my name Derek Nelson.

Don't be a stranger, also if you like you're privacy and don't want to be in my content, I respect that 100% so don't feel like I'm going to be some YoYo Federico Fellini with the camera in your face either. I have respect and most of what I want in front of the camera is the color or me working the ground or water.