- Glamis* - Man, that was a blast. I had heard about it from Cyndie before, but didn't really get it. There were a lot of people to contend with in the camping area, but once you hit the dunes, things really spaced out and there was plenty of room to roam. I variously road in a dune buggy, on a quad, and in Gene's ranger (a glorified four wheel drive, gas powered golf cart). All fun, but the quad was by far the best. I'd ridden a bit before, but never in the dunes. So fun. It was almost like snow skiing in some ways ... following the contours of the dunes, rushing up and down ... hard to describe, but a blast. I definitely want to do that again. Some highlights ... Gene (Cyndie's brother) fracturing his ankle when not wearing his seat belt and rolling the ranger, Emma learning to ride a quad all by herself**, Lee (Cyndie's dad) fun new dune buggy, watching the Sand Drags***, digging Josh (Cyndie's nephew) out of a hole at the top of a dune during a night ride. Glamis was great! Many thanks to Lee and Gene for making it possible.
**Emma learned to ride on "Cyndie's Quad". This is the same Honda 125 that Lee bought Cyndie when she was in elementary school, and that she remembers riding with the fam at Glamis 20 years ago. Fun. Gene said that all his kids have learned to ride on that quad.
***Sand Drags - picture this, hundreds of motorcycles, quads, buggies, etc lined up about 50 yards apart, add 3 - 5 vehicles at a time racing down the middle at around 50 - 80 miles per hour, craziness!
- Fountain Valley - a blast seeing friends, going to our old church, hitting restaurants that we miss, enjoying the great weather (70s most of the stay), going to the beach. We stayed with our good friends the Zones. The only negative was that school was back in session, so that kind of restricted the time we were able to spend with friends (and their kids).
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