George the Cyclist

All manner of books (histories, memoirs, travelogues, novels) have been written about The Tour de France, including a vast number of books w...

The UAE is such a safe zone that my Warmshowers host does not lock his apartment door.  It makes it easy for his many touring cyclist guests...

There are three distinct strata to the populations of the Emirates and Oman--the Arab nationals whose land it is, the Western advisers and w...

Another of the amenities that have made Oman and the UAE such a pleasure to travel is the regulation that bans trucks from the road during t...

Moreb Hill, one of the world's highest sand dunes, nearly one thousand feet high, resides at the end of a twelve-and-a-half mile ro...

For nearly one hundred and fifty miles, with another hundred ahead of me, I've had endless miles of wind-sculpted sand to gaze ...

The rocky, desolate terrain turned into sandy, desolate terrain as I headed northwest out of Oman back to the United Arab Emirates.  I ...