Finally, into the desert and gulf

After a couple weeks of moving madness (more on that later) we finally made it out to the desert proper on a daylong desert safari with Toyota Landcruisers. After about an hour heading south, past some pretty heavily protected and isolated oil fields and refineries, and a random camel now and then, and voila, we had run out of room in Qatar (kinda reminds me of Jersey) and were looking across an inlet to Saudi Arabia (no worries, that's as close as we got). 

Then it was back across the desert for some "dune bashing" which at times felt like being on choppy seas, and at times felt like the big drops at the rollercoaster. Except you could actually imagine the Land Cruiser flipping end over end, and there was no minimum height requirement - I always hated those;). 

Of course no such thing happened, and it was just good plain adrenaline. After which we headed over to a beach camp where we got to frolic in the Persian Gulf. It was nice to be back in warm (bathwater warm) ocean water, in early October no less. 

Hopefully we'll have a couple more months of this kind of weather, but everyone says it's going to get "cold" soon. I think that means 80 during the day and 55 at night, which actually will feel cold I think, since I barely notice 95 anymore. It's all relative I guess. Anyway, we'll be stocking up on space heaters (seriously) so as to not be caught burning our Kleenex for heat (not so seriously). Until then, I'm going to enjoy the weather as much as I can.