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The alarm sounded at five o'clock. Neither of us had slept particularly well. The approaching storm had found its way into our thoughts long before it reached Oman. For the first time since the trip began, the weather fe...

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The following morning unfolded at an altogether gentler pace. After nearly three weeks on the road, we had learnt to appreciate days when there was nowhere to be, no luggage to strap onto the motorcycle and no kilometres...

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Morning arrived quietly over Ash Shuwaymiyyah. I had already been awake twice during the night, stepping out from beneath the shelter of the gazebo to answer nature's call and finding myself instead staring upward. Away ...

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Leaving Souly Lodge felt far more emotional than either of us had expected. We had spent less than a week there, yet it had quietly become the heart of our journey. It was where the war had altered our plans, where conve...

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Before breakfast, we headed down to the beach for another barefoot run, the cool sand giving way beneath our feet as the Arabian Sea glowed softly in the early light. As if on cue, a small pod of dolphins surfaced just b...

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By now, our mornings had settled into a rhythm. Today, our destination was a leisurely loop through the mountains above Salalah. Our first stop was Ain Razat, one of the few springs that flowed year-round despite the dry...

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For nearly two weeks, our days had been measured in kilometres, departure times and the next place waiting somewhere beyond the horizon. Now, for the first time since leaving Dubai, there was no route to load into Calimo...

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We had planned to leave Souly that morning. Instead, before breakfast was even over, we asked if we could stay another three nights. It was an unexpectedly easy decision. The fire at the port of Salalah was still burning...

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After a run on the beach alongside dolphins breaking the waves and a hearty breakfast we climbed onto the Africa Twin for the short ride into Taqah. Barely twenty kilometres separated the lodge from the little town, yet ...

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We knew today's ride would carry us deep into southern Oman towards Taqah, yet beyond a thin line on the map we had little idea what awaited us. Nothing could have prepared us.

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I woke before dawn knowing something wasn't right.

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Christian was awake before sunrise.

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The eighth day of our journey began with a number that felt almost impossible to comprehend. Thirty-six. Thirty-six years since two much younger versions of ourselves had stood together and promised to share a life. It s...

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After hiking, swimming and exploring wadis over the previous day, we felt content with a simple excursion today. The town of Sur lay only fifty kilometres south of Tiwi, making it an easy ride there and back. As we made ...

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The previous days had belonged to the motorcycle. This one would belong to our feet, and eventually, to the water.

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After two days in Muscat, it felt good to be moving again.

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The war was still there, humming quietly in the background of our journey like distant machinery. But this morning brought something happier as well. It was our youngest daughter's birthday. Before anything else, we sent...

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We woke before sunrise, not because we had to, but because the world had become difficult to ignore.

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The next morning, we left before the hotel had fully woken up. Al Ain was still quiet when we rolled out at 7:30am, the air already warm enough to hint at the day ahead. Twenty-five degrees before breakfast. The kind of ...

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I have learned, over time, that departures are rarely about movement.

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