Charge of the Headlight Brigade - ME4x4 GPS Challenge

What a day, and go which way?
What a day and onwards
Into the Emirate of Sharjah
road the three Toyota
Forward, the Three Toyota
Charge for the dunes we said:
toward Falaj a Muwallah
rode the three Toyota.


‘Forward the three Toyota!’
With GPSs they're dismay’d?
Not tho’ the others knew
some other teams they blundered:
Theirs not to see us fly
Theirs just to wonder why
we attempted dunes or die,
Across into the Emirate of Dubai
Rode the three Toyota

Dunes to the right of them
Dunes to the left of them
Fences in front of them
Slip faces a sundered
Storm’d at with low ratio and well,
Boldly they drove like hell,
Into the jaws of death
and past big red as well
Rode the three toyota

Thrashed all their gears bare,
Thrashed as sand flew in the air
Grunt and Octane there,
Charging a dune while
All the others wonder’d:
Plunged in sand ‘n smoke
Along a dead line they rode;
Cuiser, Prado and Fortuna
Reel’d from engine stroke,
Shatter’d and sunder’d
On to the next coord'nat, and still
The three Toyotas.

Dunes to the right of them
Dunes to the left of them
Dunes in front of them
High and steepened
Storm’d at with low ratio
while other teams they fell,
They that had drove so well
Came along the shorter path
Right through to point 4 as well,
Every bit left of them,
Unbroken the three Toyota.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild drive they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour that drive they made!
Honour the three Toyota,
The second placed Toyota!




Original Version

Early Dawn Rise

Now I'm not one to turn down a chance to go off roading so I hooked up with Bob-down-under to head into the desert for a bit of fun around pink rock. I was really looking forward to this until Bob mentioned the start time.....6am and DragonMart Eppco!!

Still, off roading is off roading so up we got and off we went, and I have to admit, it was worth it for the breakfast/coffee on the dune watching the sun come up:

Although as I am sure my co-pilot will verify it was fairly chilly at that time in the morning even here in the sand pit. After coffee we headed off for a few dunes:

and we even let Brendan have a ride in the YBOD3.......only for him to get it VERY stuck:

But after recovering brendan from the truck (Prising his white knuckles off the steering wheel), and the truck from the dune we carried on. We made it across to pink rock

and on to a run up big red, which of the course the FJ handled with ease:

but wait, not everybody made it to the top of big red, did they Mr Head?