Horizon Chasing
Thanks for dropping by. This is Sam Watson’s blog – sometimes writer for various magazines, traveller, writer, geographer, conservationist and itinerant scruff. Insta – samwatson4994 / X – SamWatson__ / Fb – Sam Watson
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US route plans, kit sorting and Egyptian maps
A whirl of activity here at the moment. Buying desert kit and mechanical toolkits etc for this Ford Escape here in the UAE (and the Land Rover which will replace it, sooner rather than later I hope), but in the mean time ordering kit online for the trans-North America drive in a month’s time and getting…
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Go West, young man…..
So at the mo it’s all about route planning, “coast to coast, sea to shining sea” and beyond. The New World, the Colonies, Across the Pond, and all that. I get into Washington DC on July 2. The Land Rover, Penny, is being shipped into the US from her current base in Cambodia on June…
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Planning trips – and a stopgap car
In the UAE Defenders are crazy money and decent Discoverys (or is the plural DIscoveries?) are hard to find, so in the quest for a reliable 4×4 I’ve sourced a place in nearby Umm Al Qain where a guy has a stockpile of ex-military Series Land Rovers and I’m hoping I can find a halfway…
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Annotated copy of ‘Long Range Desert Group’
So I have been given a signed and annotated copy of ‘Long Range Desert Group’ by Bill Kennedy Shaw. I’m trying to work out who wrote the annotations, as the script is different from the author’s signature. Some were written in pencil and have been inked-in afterwards. The book used to be owned by the…
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Back in Cairo
Good to be back in this crazy city as it gets ready for Ramadan. Staying with desert buddy Gregg and catching up with the rest of the desert crowd. Gregg’s given me a lovely old signed first edition of ‘Long Range Desert Group’ by Bill Kennedy Shaw, signed by the author and with all sorts…
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Cairo bound again…..
Back to Cairo on this coming Wednesday. Strange how the place can bug the hell out of me and yet having been hooked by it since 1979 I can’t stay away 🙂 Been trying to bring my Discovery into the UAE from the UK but RHD cars can’t stay in the Emirates for more than…
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