Silver Case

The car drive

I’m spending this weekend in Ras Al-Khaima, a small emirate north of Dubai. It’s fairly close to some mountains that I wanted to ride to. There is a famous 75mile 4×4 ride to Wadi Bih, just over the border in Oman. I’ll probably ride at least part of that. I’m unlikely to be able to manage a 150mile round trip, so perhaps I’ll just ride to Oman and come back. I’ll do that tomorrow though. Today I’ll get there early afternoon, I need to assemble my bike, test it, and get accustomed to the area. I’m staying at the Hilton hotel at least saturday night. Possibly sunday.

Have terrible, terrible sinuses. They’re just swollen beyond belief. Woke me up last night my head felt so pressurized. I steamed mysekf in a scalding shower for 15minute at 02:00 which helped a bit. I just went and bought some drugs at the pharmacy. Guy says, “you shouldn’t take these now, it’ll make you drowsy.” I demurred, as I don’t mind sleeping on a 2hr drive up the coast of the UAE. I opted to take a car from the hotel rather than the public minibus. Costs more but I’d rather sit in an airconditioned Lexus sedan than an shitty bouncing minibus. Anyway, as general safety principal, avoiding ferries, domestic china airlines, and public minibuses is good practice.

The general bike ride

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