ISBN 978-0-9532324-5-1
http://www.desertwinds.co.uk/home.html
Last year as part of my retirement plan I decided to start preparing for an overland trip in my Land Rover.
I searched for a copy of the highly acclaimed “Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide”, which I had been led to believe by various articles, was both expensive and difficult to find.
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Michael decided that he and I needed a break and it would be a good idea to go on an off road trip to Wales. As Michael is not an off road or Land Rover enthusiast I was quite surprised. Mark decided he would like to go as well. So a quick call to the Abbey Grange hotel and accommodation was arranged for the three of us for 15th March 2012.
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Ever since purchasing his new Land Rover Discovery some months ago Andre had been pestering me to take him on a green lane trip to Wales. I’d also been promising my mate Julian to take him on a trip and I kept finding good reasons to put if off. So I decided to bite the bullet and organise another excursion to the wilds of North Wales. I sent out an invitation to a number of people and settled on a couple of days that everybody could make. A swift negotiation with the
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Having recently purchased a shiny Land Rover, I was a little surprised when Andre first approached Dad asking when he would next be planning an off-road trip to Wales. Of course needing no excuse to trek through the Welsh wilderness the trip was quickly organised a few weeks later. I have been on a few day trips to the Devils Pit since the family Land Rover obsession began, but have never actually taken part in real green laning. So when I was asked if I wanted to come along I thought, what the heck, it’s time to find out what all the fuss is about! I made sure I packed all the appropriate camera equipment; lenses, tripods etc as I figured this would be the only way I could probably make myself useful by documenting our trip.
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It was quite a surprise when out of the blue Mark one Tuesday said “I’m holiday this week could you take me on an off-road trip”. As I had offered to take him several times before, I could hardly refuse. I quickly called around all the usual suspects to find out who was available. With exception of Jamie everybody else was not available at such short notice. I then started frantically e-mailing to try and find accommodation for 3. In the end I found two locations offering B&B for the Thursday night. I settled on the Abbey Grange Hotel in Llangollen. I arranged to meet Mark and Jamie at 9 o’clock on the Thursday Morning. here was no time to even put decent tyres on the 3 door Discovery. I had loaded up the car with 2 Hi-lift jacks and a selection of wooden chocks, strops, shackles, chains and ropes. The car is pretty much bog standard and is a basic model, it’s even got manual windows.
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ISBN 978-1-4-092-0301-8
I got a new book for Christmas “The Impossible Takes a Little Longer” written by Eric Edis.
Its an account of his overland trip from London to Australia by Land Rover in 1957.
It was fascinating reading and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you think driving off road today is tough then I suggest you get a copy.
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