In message <941101224405_100043.2400_BHJ83-4@CompuServe.COM> "Stefan R. Jacob"
writes:
>
> ....I'll make it as short as possible, just the raw data should be enough
> to impress any Land Rover critic:
>
> Two years ago we (one 110, one 83'RR and my 73' S.III 109 Station) set off
> on a 5-week trip through the Near-East. My vehicle preparations: None.
> Just the regular as-is no-frills S.III 2.25 petrol that I had been driving
> daily and to work for the past couple of years. I threw a field bed,
> sleeping bag and a few plastic water canisters in the back (oh yes, and I
> did have one of those canvas water bags!), got in, turned the key, and then
> we drove through Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, across Turkey,
> through Syria and Jordania, took the ferry in Aqaba over to the Sinai, had
> a look around Sinai, drove up past Suez, crossed the canal and continued to
> Cairo, rovered round the Pyramids, then down the Nile valley past Luxor
> and Assuan, through the desert all along the Assuan (formerly Nasser) Lake
> to Abu Simbel and Wadi Halfa (border to Sudan), no dice for entering Sudan,
> so back again through the desert to Assuan, then across the eastern desert
> highland to the Red Sea, up along the Red Sea to Suez; liked Sinai, so
> again over to Sinai and down to Sharm-el Sheikh, then back via Cairo through
> the desert to El-Alamein, had a look around (still plenty of war trash lying
> around), along the mediterranean coast to Alexandria, short on time, so we
> took the ferry back to Venice/Italy, with short stopovers on Crete and in
> Athens. From Venice back over the Alps (already snowing) to Germany.
> Well over 7,000 miles in just 5 weeks, under occasionally punishing
> conditions. My regular original factory-built plain vanilla 20-year old
> S.III 109 without any add-ons or 'expedition gear' whatsoever, fitted with
> near-bald old Avon Range Master tires, went through that trip without
> coughing, sputtering or stalling even once, and never got stuck either.
> Just a normal, interesting, totally trouble-free journey. So much for long
> distance travel in an old Land Rover.
> Now lets hear it from the Broncos and Blazers...
>
> Stefan
> <Stefan R. Jacob, 100043.2400@CompuServe.com>
>
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TeriAnn Wakeman Large format photographers look at the world
twakeman@apple.com upside down and backwards
LINK: TWAKEMAN
408-974-2344 TR3A - TS75519L,
MGBGT - GHD4U149572G, Land Rover 109 - 164000561
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