My Guardian Angel

It has been a long day: first I tried unsuccessfully to get a Covid shot before leaving Riyadh, then, during my lunch break at a very clean Al Baik my phone dropped into the toilet. When back on the road I had a flat tyre and I was just about to change it myself, when just 100m down the Road I saw a garage with tyre change. How lucky can you get.
Until I got going again, it was quite late, I felt really flat and decided it was time to call this lousy day by its name. The sand between the dunes looked firm. Normally I always check out the sand before driving into, but I was just too tired. So in I drove but didn't get too far and I sunk in. I couldn't be bothered digging today, so I rang the Islamic Sand Rescue asking them to come tomorrow.
As they said they'd come around 10 the next morning I had plenty of time to take Rex for his morning walk. When I came back, there was a man standing beside my car. As I learned later, he was not of the ISR but just passing by seeing Lola deep in sand. In no time we had Lola on safe terrain. when I admired the prowess of his vehicle he asked me, if I would like to drive a decent sandworthy car for a change. Yes, of course I do! Whith a big grin on his face he gave me his keys and off we went up and down the dunes, first very hesitant but with his encouragement I got really good at that. And had a whole lot of fun doing it.Read more