Tom Sheppard on the Nobility of Wilderness, Crossing the Sahara, and Overlanding the Deserts.
The Overland Journal Podcast
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The First Successful West to East Crossing of the Sahara From Ocean to Ocean
When I was in Cyprus, that was the first thing that I applied myself to. Getting a sort of mobility plan. And sure enough, we deployed to Jordan just over the road from Cyprus. It wasn't exactly the dark side of the moon. But we went there and suddenly in the middle of the night, you know, the flight commander came and said, Hey, you've got those drawings. And off we went. So that was how the scientific aspect of the trip came.
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