Sooooooo many cars meet at Al Noor hospital and it almost looked as the season party. But it was a quite special trip I must say. Not so much because it was my birthday but ANDY^s last trip (at least for a while). I know it is said before but this time I really mean it "Best trip ever".
We split the group into several smaller groups. Xof and Mood took off with the more advanced drivers, I took on the Newbies and Andy took the ANIT group.
My group went past Boudthib stables and started halfway in to the Marshal run track. We had a blast and in the beginning there were far too few stucks I would say. After a short break we decided to spice it up a little and at last we found a few crests where some of the cars managed to park on the middle of
During our route we met JC and Marina in the desert, suddenly Khalid and Kalemero came flying over some dunes and shortly after Taher came as well (what a surprise). During our route we met with the ANIT`s every now and then as well and they seem to have just as fun as we did.
Finally we stopped at the BBQ point and it was an impressive number of cars and people and it was so enjoyable. BBQ, shisha smoke, lots of talks and discussions and many many old faces mixed with new faces and I think all enjoyed.
Thanks to Andy for organizing this megatrip . You are the king and you will be missed my friend.
Thanks to Barkil, Lars, 9Ball, Shakey and Boujebba for supporting me with the Newbie group.
Thanks to Cam for the birthday cake - I really appreciated that and it was delicious.
Thanks to all the Newbies who attended my groupand I hope you enjoyed the route even though we ended up on the wrong side of the fence but that only lead to more fun driving
Finally thanks to all the members (ANIT`s to Marshals) who came along and made this day a very special memory.

Thank you Viking & Andy for organizing such a great AD4x4 Friday, it was another blast to see so many cars parked on the BBQ spot when we reached there!

Mood was our leader for the day and, as expected , he took a beautiful intermediate route from Sweihan to Khatim which challenged some of the drivers. Thank you Mahmood, Katharina and me loved it ! Thanks also to Mero for 2nd lead and my dear friends Adel and Banna for sweeping. First time for me to be on a trip with the mad FJ cruizer , you are a great guy and I hope it won't be our last trip together.

Great to see also a lot of new faces again, hope you enjoyed the tour.

What can I say, it cannot get any better than this, happy Birthday again Erik and more tears for you my friend Andy. It was an honor to ride with you and the late night rescue mission was surely a delight for all of us, what a spirit guys


Mike

Thanks Andy & Erik for the lovely trip. We did not have many stucks this time so had to do something to make Lars that sweepers day worth while Lesson learned 'Always look ahead before you leap' hehe!
Cheers,
Cherokee
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What to say ................................ gr8 Full day Out ..........
swihan to to Al Khatim ........... Party .............. Al khatim to Al Khazana (night drive).... Al kazana to Al Faya .. Al faya to the Bed ....

Thanx All for joining my trip all Of you did Will.................. Wasabi Thanx for Joing My Night Drive

Andy INS will see you soon my friend ............... Viking wish you all the best ...

See you All

Thank you again Viking for an enjoyable trip. My cousins and brother had more fun than they expected (Especially coming down dunes )

It was loads of fun as usual and i'm glad i managed to do the entire trip without any stucks (My cousins were betting i'd get atleast 3 stucks with my FAT Lazy Cow ) so i guess i showed them otherwise ..

Hope to get the opportunity to join one of your trips soon.


Andy .. all the best with what ever the future hold for you, and hope you manage to get back to the desert, i'm sure the sand will be missing you

Thank You Viking and Andy(a special farewell to u.Lets hope you will back in the dunes soon !)

As they say each trip is a new lesson and it was a wonderful experience for me . I got stuck only once this time !

Thanks to Mood for sharing his experience with the 4 wheels duirng the BBQ.

See u all in the upcoming trips.

Thanks Andy for a great time. Its a shame you're leaving as I have just found another marshal I would follow in the sand

Hope you had a nice birthday Viking

And thanks to MB Hammer for taking over the driving half way round glad you enjoyed driving the pathfinder Next time you should have a go Joy.

Thanks again Andy and good luck.

Eric & Andy, you both deserve to have such a great B'day & a Good-Bye day. Regretfully I was forced to miss this event

Happy B"day Eric & All the best Andy you'll be missed Buddy :cheers1:

Nahhash wrote:Eric & Andy, you both deserve to have such a great B'day & a Good-Bye day. Regretfully I was forced to miss this event

Happy B"day Eric & All the best Andy you'll be missed Buddy :cheers1:

you realy missed a lot:
- A great trip
- A great BBq
- Best birthday party, and farewell party
- Great stucks and recoveries
No pop outs (as far is i know)

VIVA

It was a great day.... big pleasure to see all these car, and cool people.

I was happy to discover new faces, and sad to see Andy leaving us.

I joined the Mood night drive: a real experience on its own! Up to yesterday, I was enjoying AD4x4 to peacefully cruise while enjoying outstanding landscape. But thanks to Mood, I discovered a new set of sensations: nigh drive behind Mood, Wooah! I cannot describe it, but it worth to be experienced. I'll not upload any action picture : my 2 hands and full attention was required for the car! For me it is really a new step, to continue to learn thanks for your support.

Really nice group of people. Thanks a lot for enabling me to discover that.
Thanks also to the others members, in front and behind me, your lights and tracks were helpful. Thanks for the help when my tire popped out.

I am looking forward another one.

Thanks for trusting me.

Mood wrote:What to say ................................ gr8 Full day Out ..........
swihan to to Al Khatim ........... Party .............. Al khatim to Al Khazana (night drive).... Al kazana to Al Faya .. Al faya to the Bed ....

Thanx All for joining my trip all Of you did Will.................. Wasabi Thanx for Joing My Night Drive

Andy INS will see you soon my friend ............... Viking wish you all the best ...

See you All

that was my pleasure!!!!! it was so fun with some great and cool offroders!

Andy: we will all miss you!
Eric: Joyeux Anniversaire ( the cake was nice)

Thank you Andy and Eric for this afternoon and the warm evening in the sand

It was very great to share fun in the dunes and BBQ at the sunset with so kind people!
Really nice to be part of such a club, always a good opportunity to meet new friends and to get know old ones better...
and so... really too bad to have to say you bye Andy

Vicking, if parisians usually give 2 kisses, in specic occasion very special person can get 4...
hope you well received mines so

GentleMood... hopefully you took me up in your challenging trip, you!
thanks again for the sensations... think I'm becoming a night drive-addict 8O

c u all soon with pleasure! Carole.

What an amazing trip this was. It is sad seeing Andy put his career ahead of the sand dunes but we all must make tough decisions! Your a great bloke Andy! Thanks for all of the encouragement and appropriate applied motivation. :cheers: :cheers1:

I do not think Erik needs to be reminded of how young he is but you are older than me even if only by a couple years! Happy Birthday again brother!

Mood Trip
I can say I was a bit nervous finding that I was in the Mood grouping but the first climb and crest right out of the deflation point set the trend for the day and I got addicted! The Prado proved itself again and gravity was my friend, the dunes were much firmer than I thought they would be. Thanks to Mood for being Mood, your advice, calm cheerful manner, track selection and concern for me as a Crazy Mood Newbie really made this trip fantastic. Wow, I think I will be a Mood Chocolate junkie much like "Miss Adventure" Carol who snuck off the XOF group and joined us - I must get a SWB for sure now! Thanks to Adel for the spotting and advice early on. Thanks also to Banna, Maddog, Mike, Mero and the others, it was a pleasure to travel with this group of adventurers.



The other,
Eric

Carol wrote:Thank you Andy and Eric for this afternoon and the warm evening in the sand
Vicking, if parisians usually give 2 kisses, in specic occasion very special person can get 4...
hope you well received mines so

I havent washed my face since Thanks for the birthday present from Jean-Marc and you. I really appreciate it.

Thanks All for such a nice trip and company

I really enjoyed seeing all of you ,and Lovely B.B.Q after long time

Thanks Al Magboul Mafia for the sense of Humor always in (Kalemero thank you for the short trip with your YAMAHA)

See you soon .

EX Abu Na3na3( Offically know Abu Jaguar )