Jaunting Along

Just before we left Saudi Arabia in December 2008, I wrote this email since I had never before documented the Khobar massacre  which occurred during our time there, and in which we were all on lock-down over an extended period of time.  Desert camping with boys 2004 Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, December 2008:  It’s been years, literally, since I wrote about our life here in Saudi as opposed to our lives with kids. Today, strangely enough, I came across the beginning of an email I started exactly three years ago to the very day, touching upon what life is like here on Aramco, since it differs greatly from general expatriate life in Saudi. However, I never finished what I begun on the 7th August 2005 and three years later I still haven’t finished it. (And it took me a further six weeks of rumination, internal debate and external research, before I was ready to send this one off).  But somewhere along the line I felt it necessary to sketch in the background, and not just focus