More News from Saudi Arabia

As promised I am now writing another post from Saudi Arabia. Really late.

On the day after I wrote the last post, it had to go to this place downtown called Khobar. It’s basically an area with a lot a shops. It also has some of the most insane drivers ever to live. There are no traffic lights and not even stop signs. People don’t care if you’re walking in front of their car. They’ll run right into you if you’re not fast enough.

I was looking at this sword I found in one shop. It was only about one foot long, but the shopkeeper still wanted 500 dollars for it. Guess it was an old one. I’ll have to look when I get to Oman.

News from Saudi Arabia

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.