Wake up trip 31-07

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Wake up trip 31-07

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8 cars safely in. 8 cars safely out. What a BLAST!!!!! Meeting was Adnoc Sweihan at a sharp 4.30am and everybody was on time. Off to the deflation point (still night) and weather hovering at a comfortable 26 degrees. After a short briefing and deflation, we started heading in towards Al Ain Airport. Amazing scenery and beautiful dunes.

Short stop later on around 7 for some breakfast coffee & tea. Everybody chit chatting and getting to know each other.

At around 9, weather not that "comfortable" anymore but the sun was a little shy (lucky us), headed out through a shortcut led by Mac. Was surprised too that gravel road lead to more dunes :o and safely back to Adnoc for a quick inflation & off home.

Pleasure to meet you Mac and thanks for all the guidance & assistance throughout the trip.

KGhaleb thanks for the support & especially the garden shower :wink:

Ultramind, thanks for the help in planning the route.

Thank you Icet-tea, Olejl and autoscriptor (glad to see u after a long while). Really enjoyed everyones company.

One new timer (Jetski) who amazingly also had his own 1st successful recovery try as well :oops: . Guess u know now why we're addicted :)

Thanks again all and hope to see u all soon on "Wake up trip II"

Ahmed

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Thank you Aidy, for a wonderful & well organised trip. You picked a great newbie route, the weather was great, the people were great, all round just a great trip.
We sweated in the heat with the pop outs, but that is the fun of leading eh!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the breakfast stop under the tree, even if I did get the flagpole stuck up the tree! :oops:
Jetski was great today on his first trip with us.
Hope you lead some more trips, I enjoyed today, cannot make next week as I,m off to Salalah.....oh and thanks for spotting my watch.

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Thanx Aidy

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You are great guy to follow. We really had fun out there. Cannot wait for your next trip.

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thanks Deeds & thank you all Guys

a great drive :D , had lot of fun me and Mr. Luciano Bavaroti :lol:

till next time inshallah

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Thank you Aidy , it was a very nice trip .. and I am looking forward for ur coming one ,, the track also was very interesting

and thank you all guys for the warm company ,,

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:okfriend: Seams you had grate fun, hope to join next time but not wake up trip II :verysleepy: may be afternoon trip I :veryhot:
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Aidy, very organized trip, excellent route, I have to save it... :woo:

Nice and easy drive with a bit of fun specially on the way out ... :wink:

Nice meeting the new joiners, Jetski well done on your first trip.

Waleed, Oleijl & Icet tea nice to see you guys

Mac have fun in Oman

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Was able to upload this video on Youtube yesterday. One of the very few recoveries we had to do :-) Click to open video in Youtube
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autoscriptor wrote:Was able to upload this video on Youtube yesterday. One of the very few recoveries we had to do :-) Click to open video in Youtube
Waleed, says video no longer available, could u please arrange to upload the video again or give me a link to it.

Thanks a million

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Nice video guys, Aidy I hope your strap still good, we need to brief the gujy that after pulling him out of syuck to stop & mind the strap after becoming free :roll:

Glad u enjoyed the trip, congrats for the 1st trip Aidy
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Aidy wrote:Waleed, says video no longer available, could u please arrange to upload the video again or give me a link to it.

Thanks a million
Aidy, this happens with the majority of Youtube videos. I even got the same message although the video is mine and I know it's there. It's an ISP issue I guess. From work, everything works. From home, where I connect through an Etisalat line, usually I will have to connect through a VPN to have all video s work and not see that message.

Advice: try different browser, time of the day, or use a VPN if you have one. Anyway, if you know of a different video sharing website, I can upload the video there as well. :idea:

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Bulldozer wrote:Nice video guys, Aidy I hope your strap still good, we need to brief the gujy that after pulling him out of syuck to stop & mind the strap after becoming free :roll:

Glad u enjoyed the trip, congrats for the 1st trip Aidy
Thanks Bulldozer. Strap's all good thank God. Wish to see u soon :)

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Special Dedication to waleed :D

The Liberty Dance :twisted: http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn11 ... yDance.flv

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ultramind wrote:Special Dedication to waleed :D

The Liberty Dance :twisted: http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn11 ... yDance.flv

Have Fun :D
Thanks for the dedication Ahmed. That's really nice. Probably I will need few of these videos in the future because I need to be disciplined and stop doing crazy stuff like this. That's why my wife stopped joining me in desert drives. Anyway, here is a little advise for all the crazy folks out there: CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS. This @#$%^& sand is very hard to clean.

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autoscriptor wrote:
Aidy wrote:Waleed, says video no longer available, could u please arrange to upload the video again or give me a link to it.

Thanks a million
Aidy, this happens with the majority of Youtube videos. I even got the same message although the video is mine and I know it's there. It's an ISP issue I guess. From work, everything works. From home, where I connect through an Etisalat line, usually I will have to connect through a VPN to have all video s work and not see that message.

Advice: try different browser, time of the day, or use a VPN if you have one. Anyway, if you know of a different video sharing website, I can upload the video there as well. :idea:
Tried it again last night and fortunately worked fine. Thanks :wink:

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