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As I pulled into the West side of the dunes on Christmas day, my regular spots were packed with campers. So instead of fighting the situation, I head to the washes, it had been 10 years since my last wash camping experience. So cruising down wash road, first I look at wash 10, almost the entire area is coned off, no big deal. Then head to the old stomping ground of GD.com 13.5, again entire area coned off. I end up in Wash 15, only a few campers, so I set up camp. Got enough room for our group that will come in over the next few days.
Low and behold, I am sitting in the chair and this camper pulls in with a Kawa H2 on the trailer, I say to myself that could be Sand Shark (it was). I was like, cool and another GD.com by us. I didn't get a chance to cruise over and say hi until the next day. Car is legit and looks amazing. The next day, another camp pulls in, and again another GD.com as well, Duneflyer. Pat thanks for the cocktail, nice to catch up.
But as the week approaches NYE, we all know more people will show up. I am all good with that, I am leaving on the 31st. What I found interesting, people lose sight of space and start camping closer to other camps. On the 30th, this group is looking for a spot, most of our group is leaving in the morning, so I talk to him and move a few vehicles to give them some room. So I go to bed, wake up at 2am, look out the window. Their firewood is in front of my motorhome, they pretty much camped 20 feet from me. I get it, if this was gecko, but there was room elsewhere. Music going, playing beer pong having a great old time. Mind you, I was being nice and this was over the top, zero respect. When I woke up in the morning, they also had blocked all access for other campers to get to and from their camps to wash road, people are dumb. As I go to leave, only had to back up my rig twice to clear their wood pile.
A couple of good things, with how much water in the ground no dust. I heard zero Mariachi music, for the most part I heard zero loud music. Fireworks as well were done early in the night, pretty quiet past 10pm. It was a good experience. I also got really good getting to Brawley slide thru the small dunes.
Being that the big dunes were further way, I did burn more E85 than normal. Figure every ride was about 7 miles longer.
All in all, it was a great trip and would do the Washes in the future again.
Low and behold, I am sitting in the chair and this camper pulls in with a Kawa H2 on the trailer, I say to myself that could be Sand Shark (it was). I was like, cool and another GD.com by us. I didn't get a chance to cruise over and say hi until the next day. Car is legit and looks amazing. The next day, another camp pulls in, and again another GD.com as well, Duneflyer. Pat thanks for the cocktail, nice to catch up.
But as the week approaches NYE, we all know more people will show up. I am all good with that, I am leaving on the 31st. What I found interesting, people lose sight of space and start camping closer to other camps. On the 30th, this group is looking for a spot, most of our group is leaving in the morning, so I talk to him and move a few vehicles to give them some room. So I go to bed, wake up at 2am, look out the window. Their firewood is in front of my motorhome, they pretty much camped 20 feet from me. I get it, if this was gecko, but there was room elsewhere. Music going, playing beer pong having a great old time. Mind you, I was being nice and this was over the top, zero respect. When I woke up in the morning, they also had blocked all access for other campers to get to and from their camps to wash road, people are dumb. As I go to leave, only had to back up my rig twice to clear their wood pile.
A couple of good things, with how much water in the ground no dust. I heard zero Mariachi music, for the most part I heard zero loud music. Fireworks as well were done early in the night, pretty quiet past 10pm. It was a good experience. I also got really good getting to Brawley slide thru the small dunes.
Being that the big dunes were further way, I did burn more E85 than normal. Figure every ride was about 7 miles longer.
All in all, it was a great trip and would do the Washes in the future again.
