Thomas Varghese

AWESOME DRIVE. It was my 1st drive of 2022 and man what a drive @Ale Vallecchi gave us today. But as usual Ale's characteristic of drives never changed if anybody knows what I meant. Its always from Point A to B whether its intermediate, fewbie plus or fewbie or newbie. And we achieved just that. I have been to Ale's numerous drives whether its Long Range patrol or exploration drive or even a drive I had with him in Ganthoot during the national holidays where we just drove on and on and had our tea in the most picturesque terrain. The only boring part was nobody had even a minor refusal and the radio was free from cries - I have a refusal, I believe I'm stuck. Ale had to forcefully grant us breaks in between as everyone was driving perfectly in one of the most challenging technical dune section of the desert. When I started driving with Carnity everybody avoided going near the furnace citing it was extremely challenging with lots of technical dunes. Today the convoy proved that this is perfectly navigable and conquerable terrain. Thanks to @Ashok chaturvedi we had more insights into the life and daily routine of a camel. It was nice meeting @Wrangeld and his team on the way and I got to meet him after he took me to the yellow truck in Liwa. Nice meeting some old friends @Niki & @Alex Raptor with him. The lightest moment of the drive was when @Looper commented that the IM convoy of the camels met with our IM convoy. I was watching the camel trip lead. The moment he saw our convoy approaching he stopped to give us way to cross his convoy. He only moved when we stopped respectfully for his convoy to cross our path. The last 2 camels reminded me of myself and @Jorge Stepniak Felippe who was casually trekking around as all the drivers in the convoy was driving perfect. In short the 2022 drive started with a bang.

Time to change your name back from Looper to Goutam as now a days you don't practice the art of looping much.