The highlight for us was a grueling 5 mile slog through the heart of the dunes. I know that sounds way more negative than it was. In reality, it was amazing. Fortunately, the sun was obscured by a dark cloud cover that added to the wintery feel, like a snow storm was heading in, only it was 65º degrees. The breeze also kept us relatively cool.
The sand was hard packed in some areas making it easy to walk on, but it was very loose in other areas, especially going up the steep sides of dunes, making it a horror show. Complicating matters was the fact that our shoes kept filling up with sand crowding out our toes.
Wanda finally got the bright idea to walk barefoot. The sugar white sand was cool to the touch, soothing, and just plain fun to walk barefoot in. I got proficient at following the hard packed sand. By the time we got to the halfway point, we were groovin’ along with ease - well, relative ease. Five miles of up and down steep dunes was still five miles. We were beat when we reached the van.
That was pretty much it for recreation. We returned to V-Jer around 4:30 pm for our packing-up chores before moving on tomorrow. We were blessed with a most blazing sunset.
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