Drive My Car

At last week's Desert Dash we were waiting for the riders to arrive at a checkpoint - Suddenly this dude appeared from nowhere, 'driving' his home-made wire car ...


I barely had time to snap a shot as he passed me and disappeared off down the road. I looked around and it seemed that nobody else had even noticed him. I've seen kids pushing these kind of cars around but never a grown man - here's a closer view of his vehicle:


The whole scene seemed so surreal - here we were in the middle of nowhere, not a farmhouse or village in sight - a group of well equipped high-tech four-wheel drive vehicles - and this guy casually strolling in the heat ... I wonder what was on his mind, where did he come from and where was he heading?

When I look at the pic, that old Beatles song runs through my head:

"Baby, you can drive my car, yes I'm gonna be a star,
Baby, you can drive my car, and maybe I'll love you.
Beep beep mm, beep beep yeh!"
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