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While driving to Monahans Sandhills State
Park, Karen Duquette spotted the below sign and snapped a quick photo
as Lee Duquette drove past it. NO, they are NOT the ones who crushed
the sign! |
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Below; The campground office at Monahans
Sandhills State Park contains a section that is like a museum of
sand. There is an extra charge to people not having a Texas pass.
Check out time was 2 p.m. Quiet time was 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. These are
not standard campground times. Gathering firewood was prohibited. There
were restrooms and showers, equestrian sites, an interpretive trail,
picnic areas, and a dump station. The two RV Gypsies only stayed here
one night with no hook-ups, no TV, no Wi-Fi. |
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Below: Part of the long road leading to the
camp area, and the view from the side window. |
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Below: The two RV Gypsies arrived at their
assigned parking spot along side the road. Lee Duquette set out some
sandwiches on the shaded picnic table. |
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Below: Karen Duquette took a photo of the
motorhome, while Lee Duquette tried walking up the sand hill. The sand
was so soft, he had trouble climbing up this little sand hill. |
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Below: Karen Duquette got part way up the
hill but wanted to get her shoes from the RV, and decided it was easier
to slide down on her butt rather than walk back down the sand hill to
the RV. |
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Below: Lee Duquette took a photo of the RV from
the top of the first
sand hill. |
Below: The reflection of the
two RV Gypsies in the RV window. |
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Below: Wind blown designs in the sand, footprints,
and the shadow of the two RV Gypsies' RV. |
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Below: Stepping out of the two RV Gypsies'
RV onto the bottom of the sand hill and Designs in the sand hill. |
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Below: Karen Duquette at the
top of a sand hill, and a zoomed-in photo of her ready to roll down
the sand hill. |
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 Karen Duquette
rolled so fast that
she did not make a graceful landing. |
Below: Lee Duquette at the top of the same
sand hill
ready for his
turn. |
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Below: Two views of a 70-foot tall sand
hill that Karen Duquette rolled down. Lee Duquette did not roll down
this big one. |
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Below: Karen Duquette after rolling very
fast all the way down the 70-foot tall sand hill. To see the movie of
this, choose "monahans-sand dunes.mov" AFTER
clicking here. Karen rolled down so fast, that she was stunned when
she landed at the bottom of the hill. Lee managed to walk down the hill
somehow and Karen was still just laying there. |
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Below; The end of a beautiful day. |
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 Although
the two RV Gypsies really enjoyed this place, especially Karen Duquette,
it turned out to be the beginning of a disaster. Lee Duquette had the
car keys to the jeep in his pocket and lost the car keys somewhere on
the dunes. This also included the remote clicker. Lee had a spare key,
but when he used it to unlock the car, the alarm went off. He did not
have a clicker to stop it, but eventually he somehow did stop the alarm.
But from that point on, whenever the car was moving it made a very loud,
"ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding" and just would
not stop dinging. As the two RV Gypsies traveled along their journey,
they PAID several mechanics to fix it but it could not be fixed. Eventually
other things went wrong with the jeep too. To make a long story short,
they had to junk the jeep because the part they needed was not longer
being made as the jeep was old. Big money loss for the two RV Gypsies.
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