Jeeps Sent From The Underworld, Part The Second

Dear Everyone,

No, you didn't actually miss a Part-The-First post somewhere along the way; don't go scrolling frantically thinking you've missed something. (Be honest, how many of you got a tiny jolt of what? just now? It's true that this is a slight extension to the Sahara story   yes, I'm returning to that after several weeks   but it's more of a detail fill-in than anything else.) Also, you’re not going to understand most of this post. You’ve been warned. 

Dear Mom,

I have details JUST FOR YOU since there was so little information previously. Turns out, it doesn’t actually scratch the lens, it gets inside the lens and the zoom (and anywhere it can), rendering the lens un-open-able, and thus the entire thing unusable. Just so you know. *Firsthand experience, y’all!* (PS: Did you wonder why Sahara photos took soooo long to get up? And at least I didn't lose it totally, or a computer or an iPhone, etc, which has befallen a traveler or two throughout history.)

Dear Dad,

What is it with superjeeps? Like, what. Seriously. So we’re chilling in this town where we bought turbans for the Sahara, and then we get back to the van, except—oh, wait!—it’s now a brigade of superjeeps that are about to take us into the desert. Which is fine, and all, except we’re cramped in.

And then—get this—we ride on actual roads for awhile, and then go off road into this barren landscape that might—just might!—be comparable to a certain boulder field because it was rather bumpy.

Which was dandy on the way there, when the adventure was beginning (lots of sleep, adrenaline, crazy sights; you get the idea). Everything was new and exciting and I was in the middle row. 

But guess who was in the very back row on the way back?

Guess who also now comprehends how a certain Chinese couple fell asleep in the back? (That is, until the bump came that slammed a certain someone's head against the ceiling. Oh, yeah, it was Halle-style.)

If you guessed Aaron Burr, you are wrong. 

It was me. 

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