Nostalgia!!

If any of you are on the “Flash Earth” or similar satellite viewing progs.,zoom into Saudi Arabia and find these locations.

“The Mirrors” Latitude 28deg 22’ 39" N
Longditude 45deg 57’ 43" E

“Kaf” oasis.Latitude 31deg 23’ 26"N
Longditude 37deg 29’ 44"N

Turaif, Latitude 31deg 40’51" N
Longditude 38deg 40’ 18" N

From Turaif you can see the new road,(as it was then)leaving town at about 8 o’clock.The original desert crossing is dead North out of town,you can see the tracks across the desert.
Turaif was the original Saudi border post until the “new road” opened,then “Haditha” became the new frontier.
You can scroll anywhere on this map to find the destinations we are talking about.If you scroll down the tapline from Turaif,you will see the only villages in hundreds of miles,A’rar and Rafha.They are little more than settlements around a pumping station on the tapline.
I don’t remember there being ANY houses around “the mirrors”,only the filling station on the corner,then when the new road to Riyhad opened there was a new truckstop just round the corner on the new road.But look at it now!