Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon

[Peaceand]

This is Holly, a 1972 Carawagon Continental Ultimate, pictured below being chased through the desert by a Dormobile :)

[RMS]

Notice how the Carawagon is in front, and the Dormobile is eating dust

[Peaceand]

Let's not mention which vehicle the photograph was taken from then...

[Eddi]

Great pic !

[Ian]

I can do desert!

May last year in the Mojave desert near Llanfair. It was a tad warm if I recall. Talk about a quiet night's sleep.

Cheers,
Ian

[RMS]

One of the problems with deserts are sandstorms!



Here we are in Morocco, 2011, just regrouping after becoming separated in a sandstorm.
Visibility was down to just a couple of yards at its worst - two of our group got stuck in soft sand when they stopped and disappeared - the tracks made by our tyres were disappearing within seconds so no chance of anyone following finding our tracks.

Luckily we had a guide with us who wrapped his black Tuareg around his head and face, and set of like a ninja into the sandstorm, appearing 15 minutes later with the stragglers. How he found them we don't know, but we all regrouped in the shelter of a small dune and settled down for the night.

Here we are the next morning, just a couple of hundred metres from the big dunes we had been heading for, but couldn't see!



And a couple of hours later in front of the dune:



Cheers,
Robin.

[Ian]

Now that is a really great picture!

Ian

[RMS]

Yes, but that first picture was probably a mistake as the camera autofocus stopped working after that
I managed to get the camera working by continually moving the lens, but it's never focussed right since then

The airborne 'sand' is very fine - almost like talcum powder, so got in everywhere - we're still finding 'sand' in the vehicles!

Cheers,
Robin.

[overlander]

Just a quick 'aside' as the subject has been brought up

Luckily we had a guide with us who wrapped his black Tuareg (sic 'cheche') around his head and face, and set of like a ninja into the sandstorm, appearing 15 minutes later with the stragglers. How he found them we don't know, but we all regrouped in the shelter of a small dune and settled down for the night.

Absolutely - he was a useful man to have around when the unexpected happened - rain in the desert- regardless of whether or not it is 'legal' to have a guide when travelling in the Moroccan Sahara with 4 or more vehicles (you might get two different answers if you asked a solo desert traveller and the Moroccan Tourist Office)!

These pictures only make me want to go back and do it all again - June or October could be a possibility - anybody want to tag-along?

Robin, hope you have made a full recovery from that recent self-inflicted blow to the forehead.

John H
overland junkie

[RMS]

As you know John, we were planning another trip this year, but due to illnesses it looks like it might be put off

I couldn't do June or October anyway, due to family commitments.

What are you planning to drive - the 504 or are you borrowing a Disco?

Robin, hope you have made a full recovery from that recent self-inflicted blow to the forehead.

Which one was that? There have been so many

Cheers,
Robin.