And That was How it Went

By now I should have gotten back from Saudi.  When you think of this part of the world, most people think it is all sand.  That is not true.  In fact right here it is a lot of rock and damn hard rock at that.  We had to make a field visit or two and one location was about 70km off any paved road… about 50 miles.  Our average speed on that road was about 20 km per hour… figure that out and it took us 2.5 hours to make that portion of the trip.  The most bone jarring, rough road I have been on.  The driver (we are not allowed to drive here) said it was real easy to ruin tires on that road

“And Now the Rest of the Story – “It isn’t all sand!