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While driving to Monahans Sandhills State
Park, Karen Duquette spotted the below sign and snapped a quick photo. |
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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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The two RV Gypsies arrived at their assigned
parking spot and Lee set out some sandwiches on the shaded picnic table. |
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Karen Duquette took a photo of the motorhome, while
Lee tried walking up the sand hill. The sand was so soft, he had trouble
climbing up this little sand hill. |
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Karen got 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 down the sand hill. |
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Lee took a photo of the RV from
the top of the first
sand hill. |
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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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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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. |
Lee 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 rolled down. Lee 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, use the TOC
button above and choose Movies/Videos. There is also a video that Karen
took while holding the camera as she rolled down the hill. |
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The end of a beautiful day. |
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 Although the two RV Gypsies really enjoyed this place, especially Karen, it turned out to be the beginning of a disaster. Lee 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 did have 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 travelled 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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