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Sunday morning the group went for a ride and I decided to set up shop and pull my trans out so I could send it off to Cali with Jakster to drop with Krusty for a rebuild. Then we all cruised up to the memorial hill to set up sanddunesaddict's memorial. We did a toast to Bert with some shot's of milk in his honor. One for our homie! Miss you buddy. I say from now on every Buggy Roundup we go visit Bert's memorial and go for a good group ride to follow. He would love that.

It was a fun trip! Glad that we where able to make it. Glad to meet people face to face. Everyone was very nice and made us feel welcome and NOT outsiders (which the wife loved)! Had a few runs on the buggy and found a new problem. Looks like the clutch, not the transmission. Really looking forward to the next Buggy Roundup! Again, thanks to Pete for getting this going and everything! Had a blast! See you all next time!

Loving my new Hero 4. These are from Friday afternoon.

I thought I was going to be out of this trip as my parents from Alaska were arriving on Friday morning. My Alaska dad had been to the dunes before when he was staying with me for a time back in 2006 when I lived in Yucca Valley. So when they pulled into the house on Friday, right after the hello's the next words were "when we headed to Dumont?" So the plan was set... relax Friday and head on out Saturday morning! My mom and little brother had never been to the dunes before, so it was going to be fun to take them out. My little brother is 11yrs old and an Aleutian Indian (Eskimo) so he has never seen sand like this before! We rolled in and joined Mike, who had been out there since Friday evening. And it was unpack, toss on the helmets and lets GOOOO for a ride! I got to drive the new XP1K with my little bro for his very first ride ever through the dunes and my Alaska dad jumped in the rail with Mike for his first ever long travel sand rail ride! With JoeDuner leading, we headed out with a couple others on a great ride to the North Pole... My little bro is from near North Pole, Ak, so it was really cool to have him at the North Pole, Dumont Dunes, Ca. They both got out of the vehicles grinning from ear to ear, looking like ----> Of course their first ride had to be one of those epic sunset rides! My mom stayed back in camp and introduced herself around, she really enjoyed meeting everyone and said everyone was nice and welcoming. Settled in for the night, had some dinner, headed out to the campfire, played some games and enjoyed the campfire and general camp antics Got up early next morning and repeated, I hopped on my quad for the day, so they had to take turns riding with Mike. The highlight of my day on Sunday was when my Mom decided it was her turn to ride in the sand rail with Mike for her first ever ride through the sand dunes. We started out the ride by joining Pete to put up Bert's memorial. Mike tested out the waters on the way over, to see how my Mom would react to being in the car. Then it was off to take her on a run, with wheelies, jumps and 4th gear pinned! Mike said my Mom was giggling like a little girl the whole time!!!! We stayed late and enjoyed the dunes as long as we possibly could and headed home just before sunset! It was a great weekend! Thank you Pete for putting this weekend together!!!!! Some pics from the trip!