My Second Christmas on the Road

On my way up from Hail up North I came past Jubbah. This is a UNESCO World Heritage site featuring thousands of ancient petroglyphs and inscriptions dating back over 10,000 years. When pulling up the car park I see a German car parked there! How did this happen? Where do they come from?
I park directly beside them, knowing they will wait for my return and then I go explore the site.
Upon my return they just trundle in themselves and it turns out, this is a couple participating in the Dakar Ralley, he as the leader or outfitter of the German Team, and she as a driver. For organisational reasons this year the Ralley is split in two and so they shipped their camper across, to spend the weeks during the break sight seeing.
So we decided to travel together for a while. they wanted to travel to Al Ula/Hegra so I had to change my route. But there seemed to be enough time to travel up north at a later point in time.
Some Rally crazy prince has shouted them an apartment in one of the Al Ula luxury resorts, which came in very handy. A nice shower, soft bed. But he desert around Al Ula is of breath-taking beauty. So we took out into the desert again just in time for Christmas. We dined with style the German way: Venison Gulasch, potato dumplings and mulled wine, which they had smuggled into the country and some Christmas decoration.Read more