Friday morning play

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Mrs. Branko woke me up at 3.30am to a thunderstorm.. she knew I was about to get up to get ready for a ride, and I think in some dark of her mind she thought I'd take it for granted and go back to sleep. But I made other plans, so I got up to study the movement of the storm and seeing how this "artificial rain" already mad everything wet, it was safe to assume the worst had passed, so I got on with my preparations and left to meet a friend in Dubai and do a full circle of the Northern Emirates.
Turned out we were chasing the rain, and at a some point we caught up with it, but for a very short while, I didn't even get a chance to pull my rain gear out of the bag before it was over. For the remainder of the trip the sky was clearing up and temperature was rising steadily to reach a very decent 41°C around 10am, which was a signal to cut the adventure short and retreat to the comfort of our home air-conditioners.
We didn't stop much apart for an occasional picture and gas, and the kilometers added up quickly.
Home safe having done 408km and just over 2 liters of water.

In picture:

- An old watch-tower near a place called Fili by the birder with the Sultanate of Oman, obviously it has been completely restored, and they've built a roundabout around it, but it's a nice little lesson in history to remain for future generations.
- A random pool of leftover rain from last night, I just thought it would give a good platform for a reflection photo - which it did

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