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Mom, please SAVE these letters!
Monday, Nov. 5 1990
1305 (Saudi) 0505 (EST)
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Dear Mom,
As you probably know by now, I am finally in Saudi Arabia. I hope you didn’t mind my writing to Jane first, but I started a letter to her on the plane because she had been really upset when I talked to her the night before we left. I told her to let you read the letter since it was 11 pages, and it told alot about this place. I’ll pick up from where I left off in Jane’s letter.
On Saturday, we spent most of the day lying around, and drinking water. Saturday evening, after chow, they got the drivers together to go to the port to get our vehicles from the ship. I was surprised that we were only about 30 minutes from the port. On the way there, we passed through the city of DAMMAM. That was interesting. All the signs, well most, were in both Arabic and English. Mercedes, Volvo, Jaguar, Chevrolet, Panasonic, Sears… just a few of