Went up to SLO for a quick weekend trip to help celebrate James's birthday. We went to the horses and to the Pismo dunes to try out the touaregs 4 wheel drive and with a slight hope to need to use James's new MaxTrax (they're long rigid plastic that can help unstick a car off road) 

Journey sporting his new hat  

The MaxTrax can be seen on the back of the jeep. and a new shovel, just in case. 

The trusty Toureg did get stuck when I drove it through deeper sand. Fortunately a group of guys who witnessed the whole thing ran over and helped push the car out. you can see the dunes were crowded so we left shortly after that. 

There's a picture on my blog somewhere that Milly was small enough to hold with one arm. Not the story anymore.  

The welcoming crew at the Marshall farm