Bache Cellar is a huge, funky restaurant with barely a wooden ceiling and sand for a floor.

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So, on mornings like this one, Avie has to click a button on the floor that drops sand on the tracks as the car goes along.

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At one point we scrambled out of the cars to see scattered fields of fossilized shellfish and sand dollars that had nestled on a prehistoric ocean floor.

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