Christmas in Oman
The tail end of the years travels and obligations has cut back on any mods, culminating with the kiddos coming out to Abu Dhabi for Xmas. A trip over to the relatives in Muscat validated the build of the truck again, smoothly eating up the miles through the desert in comfort and utility with the fridge dividing the ladies in the back-and the rear cargo area/roof rack sucking up xmas presents and three females worth of luggage in a non-expo laden fashion
The D3 highlight for the trip was heading to the 1000 Nights camp in Wahiba, Oman which is a few hours S of Muscat out in the desert. A great chance to play with the truck in some sand and get some nice shots
Quite a bit of fun racing across the valley floor as a bunch of other folks were playing with their various trucks
The camel shot I dumped into the overall pics thread but the postscript is worth it since I was trying to get a shot of the guy on the camel, talking on his iPhone, passing my truck but timing kicked my ***.
A shot of the family(+) using the roof rack as intended as we topped the major dune heading in.
We weren't alone at the camp in terms of Rover enthusiasts, from Abu Dhabi too as it would seem.
Front shot from atop the dune.
Heading back out, sadly this shot doesn't really capture the depth of the valley we transited to get to the dune line to head in.
Just before getting back to the house we passed 95k on the truck, of course with the CEL on and it had a wonky transmission failure that popped up which I think is a loose connection in the harness somewhere (or a brake switch). Irony-but the nice thing about the coils was that it had no impact on really anything.
Bringing the kids back from the US also facilitated bringing the Traxide kit back so that will go on soon with a dual battery (probably time to replace the primary anyway since they tend to last 18-24 months at best in the heat here), that will be followed shortly thereafter with hard mounting OBA under the hood-with the intent to have a QD point on the front bumper opposite where the winch controller plugs in.
After that...the major victory from a few weeks ago was when the wife pulled up to a D3/D4 outside her Chinese class that had black wheels and when she picked me up that night she said "I didn't like them in pictures, but they look good on the truck...you should do either black or dark gray wheels when you change tires."
Say no more....
