Do you remember Marge’s 4WD in The Simpsons? Large, red, said to have space for over thirty passengers as well as the driver? When Marge uses it, she develops road rage.

Well, we found it. Yes…The Canyonero, in the desert, near Dubai!

Oh, and here are the pics of our own “road rage” in the sand dunes.

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She’s a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)

Okay, I’ll stop it with the silliness. Seriously though, Dubai is crazy, nothing sounds real or even vaguely sustainable there. And I promise to take more photos of the skyline next time. We’ve gotta make that happen with some helicopter rides!!!

After our spiritual quest in Nepal and the mighty Himalayas, we stopped for a couple of days in Dubai. No holy Hindu sadhus nor Buddhist monks there! Oh no!

But instead six-star hotels shaped like giant sails or shoes or starfish…

Skyscrapers so tall the moon has to steer its way around them…

Immense off-shore man-made archipelagos, one in the shape of a spreading palm tree, ressembling levels from Super Mario Sunshine…

Dubai is crazy. And nowhere is this more visibly expressed than in the city’s skyline.

The world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Dubai, has just open in January. It looks like an almighty shard of misplaced enthusiasm: a lofty syringe injecting dementia directly into the skies.