Day Trip To The Dunes

Cole and I have had a really hard time making a solid trip to the dunes happen, but last minute for the past two weekends in a row we have totally been able to pull it together. Problems have been friends who are too busy, families not getting any attention from their husbands, no money, or a bad case of the throw ups. But each time, just minutes to hours before the trip we were able to rope someone into coming with us.

This Saturday was supposed to be the biggest trip, Cole, me, Stetson, Debi, Ammon and his wife, and one of Stetson's friends. The end result? Everyone bailed except Cole and me. Friday night though we were able to get Marcos to come with us. So the trip to the dunes was still on. Saturday morning came, and the three of us packed up the trailer, 2 quads and one dirt bike.

On the way, we stopped to get food for the dunes-- One important stop we made was at Beto's for Cole. Can't do the dunes right without a breakfast burrito.

Finally we were on our way. Part of the way there Leo (short for Leonitis, and the name of our truck) started acting up, which sucked because we just paid to have it fixed and chipped so that this problem wouldn't happen. It didn't happen to the same degree as it had before, but it wouldn't accelerate well (if at all) up the hills on the way out there. It would get to 50 mph and then the rpms stayed so low you couldn't go any faster. So both on the way there and on the way back we stopped several times hoping to fix it. Not fixed. Looks like another trip to Gillette is in the future.

Still, we made it to the dunes!! Then the truck got stuck in the soft sand, a little 4 wheel drive fixed that. Although we didn't realize right off the bat that we had to lock the front tires even for 4-hi. You do.

Finally, we were set up. The day was beautiful! The boys were trying to get some sun (mostly Marcos since he has the pallor of piece of chalk, no offense Marcos!).

We pulled the bikes out to ride--have I mentioned Marcos hasn't ever ridden quads before? The three of us started out. Marcos did awesome!! I think we owe it primarily to the fact that he wasn't afraid of anything and therefore had several rolls and falls. But Cole and I were so impressed! Although on several occasions we said to each other "this guy is crazy! he's going to kill himself." No one got hurt though, and it was an extremely successful day at the dunes. So glad we were able to go after all.