Our 500th Postiversary
March 9, 2025
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Thank you, readers, subscribers and newbies, those of you who comment and those of you on mute, for linking to Latitude65 and making it so
Not sure if we’ll bother seeing any others in the Middle East.
Thank you, readers, subscribers and newbies, those of you who comment and those of you on mute, for linking to Latitude65 and making it so
We didn’t know we’d be going to the “Most Improbable Village in Oman.” After camping for several nights in Hannibal, the name we gave to
“When you see a parade of mules coming, move off the trail,” our guide Brian told our hiking group last spring in the Grand Canyon.
Wild camping—that’s the Omani term for what we call primitive camping, Americans call dispersed camping and New Zealanders call freedom camping. We’d been wild camping
Spraying a dab of perfume on myself this morning made me think about camels. “Camels, I like,” said Aubed, our guide in the Empty Quarter
What was one of my biggest fears in venturing off-road by ourselves through the wadis, beaches and deserts of Oman? Scorpions and camel spiders! I