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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.