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When I was driving around Australia in my Defender 130, I saw a lot of kangaroos wiped out by road trains. My son and I wrote a song, "Every Time You See A Road Train, There's One Less Kangaroo. Have a listen: http://www.maxingout.com/RoadTrainExplanationMP3.mp3 My son is a musician, and he...

I just purchased ten key blanks for my Defender 110 for $1.49 each. I took them to the local locksmith, and he duplicated my key for $2.00 per key. They all worked fine on my Land Rover 110. If anyone is interested, the blanks are available at mysecuritypro.com. Here is the link...

DON'T DO STUPID THINGS My first trip into the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia taught me the most important lesson of desert exploration that I ever learned: DON'T DO STUPID THINGS! The desert is unforgiving and doesn't treat fools lightly. Here is how I learned that lesson. After a four hour...

If you are into sailing adventures, you can follow the adventures of catamaran Exit Only on a circumnavigation of the world following a tradewind route including a passage through pirate alley and up the Red Sea. Check out MaxingOut.com http://MaxingOut.com Enjoy.

My wife and I love to shoot photographs of butterflies. We use Nikon Cameras and lenses for all of our photo safaris. Here are a few of our butterfly photos. If you like those photos, more can be found at http://PositiveButterflies.com Enjoy

I am a flying doctor for the Indian Health Service, and I fly out to different reservations to deliver eye care to Native Americans. When I landed this week at the Whiteriver Apache Reservation, I saw sky cranes from Helicopter Transport Services. There were two sky cranes on the ground ready...

GRANITE BATHOLITHS - BEDOUIN WELLS - ABANDONED VILLAGES OF THE ARABIAN SHIELD When things don't work out as planned, what should you do? Put a for sale sign of your Defender and hope that a Bedouin with lots of cash shows up to put you out of your misery? Sit around and feel sorry for...

EXPEDITION TO THE ROCK WALL JOURNAL AND THE SAND RAMPS OF THE EMPTY QUARTER OF SOUTHERN ARABIA The Empty Quarter is one of the largest sand boxes in the world. Every time I think about playing in the sand, I want to go to the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. Big sand and endless dunes are a...

EXPEDITION TO THE WHITE VOLCANOES AND PETROGLYPHS OF THE ARABIAN SHIELD The cardinal rule of desert exploration is never go into the desert alone. Single vehicles expeditions are strictly off limits unless you have a strong desire to die. The single vehicle rule is almost always true...

Expeditionary Navigation In The Arabian Desert Not all expeditionary navigational problems are created equal, and your approach to navigation varies with terrain, capability of the vehicle, and degree of access to the land. Limited access makes navigation more challenging, and unlimited access...

Each expedition into the Arabian desert is special for different reasons. Some trips are simply to get away from it all to experience the solitude and stark beauty of the Arabian shield. Other trips have a specific destination in mind, and the destination defines the adventure. The U.S...

More than 400 years ago, a massive meteor struck and buried itself in the sand dunes of the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. We decided to make an expedition to the Wabar meteor crater in our Land Rover Defenders. Not all sand dunes are created equal, especially when you travel in the dunes of...

More than a thousand years ago, Queen Zubaidah from Iraq built an eighteen meter wide pilgrim road from Baghdad to Mecca. The road was called the Darb Zubaidah, and millions of pilgrims walked this road on their journey to perform Hajj in the holy city of Mecca. The trip to Mecca was arduous...

One of my friends, Mark Evans, is making a month long expedition into the Empty Quarter of Oman using his Land Rover Defender 110. Mark is an explorer who lives in Oman doing desert expeditions, kayak expeditions, and Arctic expeditions when he is on vacation from his job as a teacher. He has...

I wanted to introduce myself to the Land Rover Forum. Someone told me about it last weekend, and I am impressed with all the good stuff here. I have been in Land Rover withdrawal since returning to the USA, and I didn't know there was a Land Rover forum like this. It looks like a goldmine. I...