As the sky darkened and storm clouds gathered on the horizon, our jeep turned towards home.
On the morning of our leopard encounter, our jeep had left the remote Serengeti Migration Camp around sunrise.
Like errant knights we dismount our Jeep and marvel at the citadels and castles blazing against the blue-marguerite sky.
In fact, U.S. production of our Jeep models has nearly tripled (it is expected to be up 185%) since 2009 in order to keep up with global demand.
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On a clear spring morning we laid out a blanket, ate sandwiches and made tea sweetened with honey on the camping stove we kept in our jeep for emergencies.
After a brief conversation which included a guaranteed trade-in price for our 1999 Jeep we had a tentative deal.
Our 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee had 143, 000 miles on it and had done a great job for 12 years but I was ready for a new Jeep.
Now it was time to line up financing for our new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland.
Chrysler Group is interested in expanding the customer base for our award-winning Jeep vehicles, which can only be done by establishing local production.
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After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.
Without saying a word, our guide leapt off the jeep, together with a few local rangers, and headed into the bush.
At one point during the tour, our tour guide stopped his Jeep in the middle of a grassy field and pointed to his left at a group of what appeared to be about 25 to 30 large, white birds who were feeding in a marsh.
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We get back in the Jeep, bound by our common response to the dramatic landscape, wanting more.
Bill and I, along with one interpreter (or terp, as we called them), jumped into the old Mercedes jeep that served as our "get around town" car and followed two jeeploads of our Afghan officers up to the castle.
There, our excursions mixed driving and walking, taking a jeep deep into the hinterland, then hoofing it through tall, brittle grass and across vast, scorched savannah.
Two hours later and our minds started to race with all the possible reasons he hadn't returned -- had the jeep broken down, or more worryingly, had he had a serious accident?
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