Hello, Austin! I’m writing this post from across the Atlantic Ocean in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. I had to stay awake for two days straight for plane trips, and I still think it’s Wednesday afternoon. Curse you jet lag. I was picked at the airport by my half- brother, whose house I’m staying at right now.

The neighborhoods here look more like fortified military bases then neighborhoods. They are all surrounded by foot-thick concrete walls topped of by barbed wire. You have to have a visitor’s ID and be fingerprinted to really do anything here. This place is much more serious about visitors than the U.S..

I’m not quite sure about about what we’re doing over the next four weeks I’m going to be here. I think I heard something about camping and meteor crater. I’ll write another post in about week with updates.