One of these pictures is what David, Marion and friends saw while driving in the desert on Monday. They borrowed our friend BL's car and took off for a grand adventure in northern Kuwait. I stayed back in "town", took a nap and had my hair cut. One can only have so much fun. There was even a small sandstorm to complete the adventure.
Okay so you guessed right...this is the picture of what they saw...for many miles. Thanks to Google images once again for allowing us to give you the full picture!
And now's here's David...
What can one say about lots of flat land with light brown sand? After driving for 35 miles or so, we decided to check out a sign that said chalets. The off ramp of the highway quickly turned into a single lane asphalt road with multiple potholes. We didn't see any chalets but we did see the leftovers of the camping season - discarded sofas, old carpets, broken toilet bowls? Soon the road ended in the desert at an oil pumping well surrounded by old spilled oil baked like asphalt. We did see a couple of interesting birds struggling in the wind.
We next tried to find the bridge that connected to an island that looked on the map like a wildlife refuge. The bridge on the map was gone being replaced by a new one. So we couldn't get to the island. We drove until we came an area that did have chalets. About 45-50 houses on the beach. Very nice places - kinda like our lake cabins in Minnesota. After lunch at the beach we started back and that was when the wind picked up and the sand started blowing - exactly like a Minnesota snow storm. Pillow drifts on the road. Swirling patterns on the road. Low visibility, clouds kicked up when someone passed Only it wasn't white but light brown - This is what I thought a sandstorm would be before I got here.
We got back with no crashes or even getting lost. A nice outing but not much of an adventure. - we didn't even come close to losing any of our party.
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