I love driving in the middle east...except in the UAE. Saudi has better roads, no women on the road, and no speed cameras. Although the last time i went to dubai, we went in w/ saudi license plates, which turned out to be a blast. When you're driving into the country, they take a picture of your front license plate (ours had been wiped blank by driving through hours of shamal at 230KMHs, as was the rest of the paint on the front of the car), so we gave them the license plate number still attached to my old registration. Speed cameras only take pictures of your rear plate, which wasn't registered there, so we just flew through them all. Not a word from the border as we left the country.

Hope you're enjoying the UAE. have fun dodging Nissan Patrols all the time...
are people still driving around the highways with off-road balloon tires? i remember that was all the rage with the Qataris