The Buzz Behind the Beard

摘要

Walking home along an Edinburgh street one dark, snowy November evening in 2006, geologist Andy Randell received a life-altering phone call. A colleague at a Vancouver-based exploration company was looking for a geologist to log core on an exploration project in Guyana on South America's North Atlantic coast. He needed an answer immediately, so Randell took a breath and replied, "Sure, why not?" He quit his bar job that night and, less than a week later, he found himself in a hotel in Georgetown wondering how he came to be there. The next day, he boarded a tiny, leaking plane for a two-hour flight over the dense rainforest and touched down on a dirt strip. That first six-week stint reignited his lifelong passion for geology after a 10-year hiatus in other industries, and he hasn't looked back.