All Day Fewbie Plus Desert Drive - Cross Border Caravan - Dubai to Al Ain - 6 Nov 2021

[M.Seidam]

@Zed it’s nice to be on your way home but not on tarmac , but via desert track through Carnity convoy ✌️

[Varun Mehndiratta]

Thanks @Ale Vallecchi for the wonderful drive. Always wanted to try these long range drives with you and couldn't have asked for a better experience - beautiful terrain, some nice technical dunes and criss crossing and awesome company. 

I just realized that i have completed 1 yr with team @Carnity and apart from all the goods we have already discussed across forum, key element that differentiate Carnity is the team. The playlists to match the drive theme, sharing of info about Long range desert group from World War II and man you went all the way to get the badge done...these are the things that transform experience into memories .thanks a lot for the same. 

Thanks @Jeepie and @GauravSoni for supporting the convoy..

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by varunmehndiratta

[Mario Cornejo]

1 hour ago, varunmehndiratta said:

...these are the things that transform experience into memories

Summarized in a sentence!

Thank you @Ale Vallecchi for yet another great drive.

We started from the bright dunes in Al Qudra area, all the way to the Al Hayer area in Abu Dhabi, navigating through Ghantoot and Al Faqa. From what I could see from the position I was driving in, everyone did well, @Zed and @PaoloMaraziti in total control of their vehicles and dominating those tracks perfectly. 

@GauravSoni and @Jeepie thank you for your support!

As usual a pleasure to drive with everyone and also to meet other Carnity members.

Have a great week ahead!

[Looper]

A great day in the desert, driving though the day and making friendships and memories along the way. Thank you very much @Ale Vallecchi for a superb drive and @Gaurav Soni, @Jeepie for your great support. 

[MUSTAFA hussain]

Just woke up after all day drive from Dubai to al Ain 🤪….. it was a wonderful trip from Dubai to al Ain on dunes …… thanks @Ale Vallecchifor keeping us on track to end the drive safely ….. thanks to rest of the convoy ….. back to sleep 😴 

[Ale Vallecchi]

Full Day Cross Border Caravan - Drive report

"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien"

After a week of lots of work and little sleep, it's finally time to recount the fun we had during our Full Day drive late last week. Thankfully, a lot about it has been said already by the members who joined. Companionship, great experiences and memories, endurance, fatigue, satisfaction, breaking ones' limits, are some of the impressions and feelings with which we all came home after this long awaited, day-long, caravan across the border of Dubai and Abu Dhabi's emirates. I'll just add a few words about the itinerary and the overall performance of all the drivers.

From dawn to dusk, we left from Qudra's Last Exit with the sun rising at our back, and reached Al Hayer's farming compounds with the sun setting just to our right. In between, we crossed the less travelled area of Al Qudra (the one coasting the Bab al Shams road), crossed the Solar Park pylons' track aiming for Ghanthoot, cut across the sabkhas and along the sand-track circling the military training ground, zipped through Little Sweihan, and roller-coasted our way along Faqa' plateau, before taking our picnic lunch break. By the time we took the midday break, we had travelled for 3:35 hours of moving time (4:49 hrs total time, including much needed R&R breaks every hour or so), and had covered 109.5 Km at an average moving speed of 30Km/h. A very pleasant lunch under a copse of Ghaf trees, in the middle of tall yellow dunes, was perhaps the highlight of the trip, allowing all members to joke and banter, and live those moments of companionship that often are lacking while driving (radio communication is not enough), and which were further impeded by the past Covid situation. Yet, these moments of camaraderie and ease are what Carnity has been based upon, and what had attracted all of us members in the past. As soon as the cars had cooled off, and our stomachs had been filled, we moved again to exit Faqa's plateau, crossed into Al Ain's territory, overcame the ever increasing deep tracks left by O&G exploration companies around Al Jabib, and finished gloriously, criss-crossing our way through the long range, red dunes of Al Hayer, all the way to the boundaries with the local camel and produce farms. At the time of our exit, we had driven for a total of 6:27 hours (9:55 hrs total), and covered 166.5 Km at an average moving speed of 26Km/h (both the kilometeres and speed of this second half testify to the more technical nature of this area).

As far as the total driving time is concerned, it's just pure chance that the Carnity Desert Caravan Compilation (which I shared with the members before the drive) lasted just 1 extra minute. Perfectly lucky timing 😅.

As for the convoy itself, I cannot single anyone out, for either good or bad things. Everybody drove extremely well, and, as hoped, each Intermediate led a Fewbie Plus member in an impeccable manner. Great tutoring by @varunmehndiratta, @Looper, @GauravSoni (who added an extra layer to his performance with great Center Forwarding), and @Mario Cornejo.

Perfect following by @Mus_hus78, @Anoop Nair, @munkybizness (what a first FB+ day), @Zed and @PaoloMaraziti.

Tremendous support by @Jeepie while also sweeping all to safety.

So in the end, we did wander, we did not get lost, and we all grew together, both in our off-roading and personal experiences. Thanks to all, and see you soon out there.