Saturday my Son and I headed west to the Sandhills . On the way, the buggy windshield busted and flew off. My son corrects me on the buggy,” It’s a Side x Side Dad ! “ but it’s a buggy. I’m the buggy driver, he is the Banshee driver. We got there with no more incidents, to find that we were the only people there. It’s a very nice park with shaded tables, bbq pits and his / hers actual out houses. The Roswell riding club keeps the park clean with trash cans everywhere. It is said, that if a person throws out a beer bottle and they catch you, they will bust the bottle on your head as a reminder of the trash cans! We don’t drink booze. I drive easy with a occasional turn at drifting, which is fun.. I’m trying to teach my son about the sand, it was very dry and the Barchans ( Crescent dunes) were very dangerous. They would collapse underneath any machine. I was beginning to go sand blind, and told Auty we needed to ride the trails. I like to jump the barrier and go out of the park to the regular BLM land, so that is what we did. I took a few pics, and there are a lot of artifacts on the ground but to take is unlawful. That being said , no I did not take. My son has zero 0 zero interest in artifacts and after he overheated the Banshee and a loss of antifreeze, we had to take it back and park that machine. I asked Auty, “ Do you ever think about taking your thumb out of full throttle ? “ animalistic sound. He wanted to rest and look for the coolant leak, so I went out driving the worm trails, I came back to find him sleeping with only underwear on , on top of a picnic table, nice...It was 98 degrees and I took a temp reading of the sand at 150 F. After Auty woke up I made him drive me out of the park, and to let me out from time to time to look and examine artifacts. I did find a unusual combo Mano and Metate together, that had blown out of the sand. I did take a pic of that to show the gang as this set was the only second I’ve seen. The other pics are of flint and burnt / fire rock, and SW pottery shards everywhere. Lots of Mano stones everywhere. No pics of points to construe that I took any, I want that clear.
Anyway, on the way back, Auty kept being a fidget , moving around with a angry stomach. We had to stop at Tatum and get a burger. Inside we met a young man that worked on the ranch below the park, he said that he was the one that had to get a tractor to pull those people that are dumb enough to drive their monster trucks into the dunes, out. We asked him if we could drive and look at that ranch( Private Land ) on our next trip out. He said that would be just fine, just don’t get stuck , ( Search site Score !) So we got his phone number ! With the human stomach full, doc destructor happy, driving back he kept up the fidgeting , I asked him if he had greased up before we left, “ No I forgot, “
So we got back with a busted windshield , a coolant leak in one machine. I had a burnt bottom lip, and Auty has a bad case of monkey butt.... We had a good time... JJ
Anyway, on the way back, Auty kept being a fidget , moving around with a angry stomach. We had to stop at Tatum and get a burger. Inside we met a young man that worked on the ranch below the park, he said that he was the one that had to get a tractor to pull those people that are dumb enough to drive their monster trucks into the dunes, out. We asked him if we could drive and look at that ranch( Private Land ) on our next trip out. He said that would be just fine, just don’t get stuck , ( Search site Score !) So we got his phone number ! With the human stomach full, doc destructor happy, driving back he kept up the fidgeting , I asked him if he had greased up before we left, “ No I forgot, “
So we got back with a busted windshield , a coolant leak in one machine. I had a burnt bottom lip, and Auty has a bad case of monkey butt.... We had a good time... JJ
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