For Simon Tucker, the attraction to digging began at age 3, as he watched Sesame Street character Bob's Uncle searching for a golden cabbage in Snuffleupagus' cave. Then Simon discovered Indiana Jones, and so began his mantra: "I want to be an archaeologist."
As chance would have it, Simon's parents, Dale and Jolene Tucker of Lewiston, Idaho, met an archaeologist at a dinner party. Privately thinking their son would find the reality of excavating to be, well, the pits, they asked her where Simon might be able to look in on a real dig. She told them about Passport in Time...
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