Angela and I headed out to the "local" (less than 40 miles from home) desert yesterday afternoon with 4 other dads and 4 other kids for a night in the desert... It's always GREAT to take the Prado out of town and USE it as it's meant to be used... off road :=D It was a nice 95 degrees yesterday while hitting the sand... we found a cool set of catacombs (ok... catacombs sounds cool... maybe you'd call them shallow caves) that ended up being the breakfast cooking spot ... we had 4 tents out there... but by morning we were down to 2 tents... the wind didn't just not die down... it picked up as the night went on... we were even being peltted by sand inside the tent... by 2am a few of the tent pegs had come up... so it was time to regroup... at least no sand in the face in the front seat of the truck... for the kids it was no problem as them laid down in the back seats of the trucks (Dad's sacrificing for the kids)... when we woke it was a "chilly" 68 degrees and the wind must have been 20-30 mph, not quite a true "khamsin" ... but it seemed like one to us there ... the sand was flying horizontally that's for sure. All in all... a great trip! oh yeah... the Roman ruins were pretty cool too...
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