{"id":11573,"date":"2012-04-26T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:34:00","slug":"it-isnt-all-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/it-isnt-all-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"It isn&#8217;t all sand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now I should have gotten back from <strong>Saudi<\/strong>.&#160; When you think of this part of the world, most <strong>people<\/strong> think it is all sand.&#160; That is not true.&#160; In <strong>fact<\/strong> <strong>right<\/strong> here it is a <strong>lot<\/strong> of rock and damn hard rock at that.&#160; We had to <strong>make<\/strong> a <strong>field<\/strong> visit or two and <strong>one<\/strong> <strong>location<\/strong> was about 70km off any paved <strong>road<\/strong>\u2026 about 50 miles.&#160; Our average speed on that <strong>road<\/strong> was about 20 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