Weekend Desert Trip

The November Desert Trip

This is a short clip from the desert trip I made last November of Peter Gaballa getting us unstuck in the Sahara while someone is having a go at him on the radio. The 'hissing' sound you hear that cancels out most of the other audio is Peter letting air out of his tires, he has a system set up to inflate and deflate his tires on the move from the cab of his truck. Pretty nifty.

You can see a few more pictures from this trip at our Picasa page.

Desert Driving Course

Doortje and I did a desert driving course together, it was good fun and we both learned quite a lot. One part of the course was going up this dune and learning to come back down safely, which was the undercurrent of the whole course. So what we did was get a good running start and plow into the dune and see how far we could climb before gravity and inertia over took. In the picture on the left I'm in the Land Cruiser to the right, I think I made it the furthers up the dune but Door said someone climbed high later in the day. But the tricky bit is coming back down, safely of course. And if the dune doesn't look very steep in the left picture have a look at the one on the right, Doortje snapped that one before we started back down.

While we were practising getting down the dunes this bunch of Americans out for a weekend camping trip stopped to say hello. That's Turbo with me and the dogs, a friend of Peter Gaballa (below) who is our instructor and guide on my other (and next) desert trip.