Welcome back to LOJ blog! The main issue about the Middle East is the sheer amount of deserts! The Rub al-Khali was hot (Olivia shared her theory of why with you, didn't she?) but after a while you get tired of freezing cold nights and burning hot days!
There are about a thousand oil drills here. I asked if I could try some sweet oil and they just looked at me funny. "Sours fine,too," I said kindly, but noooooooo. Olivia was crying behind me- I guess she wanted the sweet oil, too! Then again, she may have been laughing...
Anyway, back to deserts. The sand is really beautiful, but the person who sent us here told us not to take a camera. It was something about "mental pictures", I really wasn't paying attention.
God, I keep getting off-topic, don't I? Sorry.
Anyway, about 2/3 of the Middle East is desert. Did you know that Antarctica is a desert?
To get water in the desert, you can turn up rocks right before the sun's up to get dew. You can also look for mosquitoes and other bugs to know about oasis. The major trick, though, is the same as if zombies are chasing you-keep your water bottle full so it doesn't slosh! Then you don't have to worry about getting dehydrated (or the zombies finding you!). If you're a nomad, all your food needs to be on legs, so you eat a lot of dairy and animals. In case you were wondering, we spent a week with a Nomadic group, so I know all the tricks. We were with the Bedouin. I think our complete weakness freaked them out a little, but we were hard workers.
Well, I got heatstroke a couple days ago, so if you call that helpful, I am the most helpful person ever. I was feeling all crappy and you can guess dairy didn't help all that much! But, seeing as I was lying down the whole time, I learned a lot about navigation. For example, if you have to go around something, you take three 90 degree turns around it so you're back to where you start. Smart, huh?
For more information on survival of the Bedouin, go here
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