{"id":48,"date":"2005-11-10T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-11-10T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T16:31:06","slug":"glamis-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Glamis bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 4am Friday morning I’m headed to Glamis, CA<\/a>. It’s billed as a “Duner’s Paradise<\/a>“. I’ve never been there but I have been to the dunes south of there called Buttercup. They are both part of the Algodones range of dunes in eastern CA.<\/p>\n

I used to go to Buttercup with my dad in the dune buggy we built together. I remember him coming home from work and telling me his boss, Larry Long, had a dune buggy and he thought we should go look at it. When we saw it he and I both got the “bug” to make a buggy. I found an old Corvair that had an automatic transmission for about $50. We wanted a manual but my dad said the automatic would be ok to start with.<\/p>\n

We spent the next few months in the shop building this buggy with galvenized pipe. Most people used steel tubing but the galvenized was a lot cheaper(and heavier). After we got it all together we took a trip to Buttercup. It did pretty well but the automatic was a definate disadvantage. We also had oversize truck tires instead of the grooved slicks everyone else was using. We later put a 4 speed and grooved slicks on it and it would keep up with most of the other buggys.<\/p>\n

That was a really fun time in my life. Sometimes I wish I had had one boy to share stuff like that with. I wouldn’t trade any of my 5 girls but it would have been nice to have a boy too.<\/p>\n

So now I’m going back to the dunes of my youth. Instead of a patched together dune buggy I’ve got a state of the art quad<\/a>. Instead of the old “Tramper” I’ll be staying in my trailer<\/a>. Instead of my family I’ll be with my good friend Scott and his son Jeremy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that’s part of the fun. Jeremy is one of those kids you hated when he was 8 but now he’s 14 and actually listens most of the time. When I see the 2 of them it always reminds me of my dad and I with the dune buggy. Of course I ALWAYS did what my dad told me to do. I was a model child. At least that’s the way I remember it. The rest of my family may have different realities.<\/p>\n

I’ll take pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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