Unsurprising, we got to the ranch about 15 minutes late, so we were rushing to get checked in and packed up to head out. There were only 3 other people on our tour, a dad and his two sons. Our tour guide was a college kid from BYU and was pretty energetic and entertaining.
After a short video we all took an atv, heading out on a short practice track with lots of turns. I was loving it until the 20-ish year old guy in front of me started having obvious trouble steering and controlling his atv. At one point, he got it stuck in shoulder high grasses but managed to get it out on his own. Shortly after that, while still on the practice track, he went off the path again, managing to wedge the atv between a few bushes. I got close to rear-ending him that time but avoided a collision. Our tour guide offered to get the guy a new model, thinking it was the steering controls...but it wasn't. Poor guy.
Jeff and I were having a super fun time driving the atvs, though I would've loved a bit more free range. Along the way, we stopped to see a WWII bunker and the sets used for parts of Jurassic Park, 50 First Dates, Pearl Harbor, and some others. The cliffs and valleys were so gorgeous...until I got run over by Godzilla heading back to my atv.
Jeff was unconcerned. The guys were confused by my enthusiasm and total lack of concern for getting dirty. By the end of the tour we all sported a healthy coat of dust from the dry trail.
The highlight of the ride for me was getting to drive through a stream. It was probably 2 feet deep, so no drowning worries. Thankfully the guy who continued to have trouble driving his atv made it through without getting stuck.
We stopped at a set of ruins used for a low budget movie that I don't remember the name of. The cool part was getting to walk around them. Besides the concrete floor, everything was made of styrofoam and wire.
Views of the ocean were gorgeous! I tried on Chinaman's Hat just for fun.
