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All this talk about the disasters of having to pee on the trail has  
kept me happily entertained the past few days while we've had a three  
day sandstorm that has blown a good portion of the local Sahara (did  
you know that "Sahara" is simply Arabic for desert, which makes it in  
translation the Desert Desert?) through my house. No hope for riding  
in this filth. Not good for man or beast so I've been catching up on  
errands in a car A/C and the option to close the vents to the outside  
and just recycle inside air or doing correspondence, my blogs and  
other writing.  It also reminds me of the reasons that North American  
wilderness can be better than Middle Eastern wilderness. Anyone who  
has gone to Dubai will recognise our desert. It's a lot the same but  
bigger and we have those huge piles of rocks in it, but that's about  
it. If you need to pee out here, there's no place to hide. The  
Antiquities folk take peeing on or next to pyramids pretty hard and  
anywhere else you can be seen for miles in some direction. Maybe you  
can hide from someone coming from the south, but the east, west, and  
north will spot you squatting from about 5 km away. "Should have  
thought of that before you left!"

Maryanne

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