This is the one time we did pull over; I think Tim felt sorry for my great frustration in trying to take pictures from a moving car, especially in the quickly fading light. Yet even when fully stopped, my camera refused to focus on the sand dunes -- maybe there just wasn't enough contrast in them at that hour. I couldn't walk down to the fence; it's hard to explain, but me in an abaya and headscarf, with the wind blowing them all over, with all those truck drivers going by... it just would have been quite a sight.

It might sound odd that I had to "cover up" in our own car, but I had to. We don't have tinted windows like most everybody else does here (and women always sit in the back, protected from public view), so I was a woman in the front seat, pretty much on display. In one funny instance, I was trying to take a picture of something on the other side of the road. Some car sped by us and the passenger turned around, leaned out the window and mimicked taking a picture. He was smiling, and I think he meant it as a joke (too bad I couldn't get a picture of him!), but it does go to show how much attention the most simple things can attract here.

BTW the fence keeps camels off the highway!