While visiting the United Arab Emirates we went on a little trip out into the desert. Luckily some nice camel owners alowed us to hop on a take a little ride on them. These things smelled worse than anything I could ever imagine and they are not that comfortable or fun to ride. Anyone who has ever used a camel for a means of transportation gets mad props from me!
After adventuring and dune bashing for an hour or so we took a quick stretch/pee break in the desert. After a long debate Jayke deemed if we were left that we had a good hour to live. I didn’t give us 15 minutes with the air temperature about 50 degrees Celcuis (130ish F) and the gusting winds that just melted your face and blew sand everywhere. Luckily we did get a ride back into town and it completed our amazing journey into the UAE desert. We did spot some wild camels walking around which was pretty cool!
Something I never realized until we got out here to the United Arab Emirates is that quite a bit of the Internet is censored by the king. Many websites like Flickr.com pull up an error like this one above, pretty crazy. It’s about 6:00am on our first full day here so hopefully I will have some exciting updates for you guys very soon.
After missing our chance to make it to the Formula 1 race this weekend due to the crazy Memorial Day traveling nightmares (that we totally forgot about) when booking this trip. After faulting on our Formula 1 chances in Monte Carlo we figured Europe was no longer worth our travels and we have deceided to head out to the beach in the Persian Gulf for the week. See everyone soon, I will have some updates on the blog from my trip.
Here is the video of us being pulled over in Holbrook, Arizona. We got clocked speeding and after issuing us a citation they opted to remove our license plate and keep it in their possession. What a mess that was but we were able to keep on Gumballing with no impound.
Well the Gumball 3000 is over and sad to say I wish I was still on the open road with 120+ cars driving somewhere. Next year’s rally seems so far but I am going to have to make it from rally to rally it looks like. If you want photograph overload of my work you can visit www.luxuryvice.com for thousands of my photos I took on the Gumball 3000 rally. If you want to hear my story in detail check out www.speedhunters.com for my diary of the rally. Below I just posted up 10 photos I really loved from the Gumball 3000 so check it out.
