Chapter 17/UAE

Kept you waiting?Well here it is……….
Our UAE story started with a lot of stress because our cars were pending somewhere between Iran and the UAE. As I mentioned in the Oman Chapter, as soon as we landed we headed straight to the Mina Rashid Port because that was the port that our cars supposedly had […]

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Desert trails

Another night that reminded us that we weren’t all that far from civilisation. As we were dropping off to sleep, we were shocked awake by the sounds of engines! My first thought was that we hadn’t avoided the dune bashers afterall. Fortunately, it turned out to be quad bikes who came past on the road, …
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Northern Emirates exploration

The quiet wadi we thought we had found was surprisingly busy. Local cars shuttled between the main road and the settlement near us – we waved good naturedly as the cars flowed in either direction. In the the morning, the vehicles started up again, but this time it included westerners too. A group of 5 …
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African Soil

This coming week I’ll be jaunting around the Baltic Sea to Tallinn, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, so I want to write about my first ever African experience before my absence.  I had the amazing opportunity to stay in Marrakech, Morocco for three days and it was everything that I expected and more.  Coming from Lisbon, it […]
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Some Hot Tunes for the Road

Sorry that it has been so long since our last blog post, but Mike has been in Europe  and the two of us are working hard to graduate (not really, but we’ll pretend).   For the nice long drives we’ll be doing, of course we need some great tunes for the  road! Our Discovery has […]
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Piece from the Middle East!

It’s been a long week, but it’s been fruitful here in the Middle East. WE HAVE A VEHICLE!!! A beautiful golden Land Rover Discovery 1999! We decided a Discovery would be the best option for a bunch of reasons, availability of spare parts, price, and performance being a few – and we got lucky! After […]
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International Driving Permits

Today me and my right-hand man, Michael, drove on up to the local CAA store in Sarnia and got ourselves some International Driving Permits – which we’ll be needing to drive our vehicle in many of the countries on the trip. It only took about 20 minutes and cost just under $40, so we’re ready […]
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A Brief Update – Africa

So as of right now we’re just trying to decide on what kind of vehicle we want to purchase for the trip, and where we’re going to buy it. We’re leaning towards a Land Rover Discovery (1994-1999), before they changed the engine, and are thinking of buying it in Dubai and having it shipped to […]
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Go Go Goa!

About a year and a half ago we got an email from someone in Pakistan inviting us to Islamabad when we passed through the Middle East. He was with the VW club of Pakistan, and had been following our trip through the Americas. When we got to Islamabad, h…

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Trouble on the Pakistani Border

After the Indian wedding we skipped town and headed for the deserts of Rajasthan. We made a pit stop at the Taj Mahal near Agra, a building said to be the most impressive ever built. It was impressive, I will say, and the attention to detail and scale …

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