MURFREESBORO, Ark. – Most road trips start with a map and end at a destination. This one started with Siri and ended with a two-carat diamond.
For the Ward family, the trip to Arkansas began as a simple search for crystals. Their youngest son, Austin, has a fascination with minerals and wanted to go mining. So his mother, Elizabeth Ward, turned to her phone and asked, “Hey Siri, where can we mine for crystals?”
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When Siri suggested Crater of Diamonds State Park, just six hours from home, the family packed up and hit the road.
They spent four hours mining on their first day, braving temperatures of 33 degrees during a cold front…