Mother Baboon Looks to Cross the Highway Russ, Mustafa and I drove from Hafr Al-Batin to Jeddah, which is over 800 miles one-way. I've traveled quite a bit of the Eastern and Northern areas and really wanted to see more of the other parts of the country.
On the way going we drove around Medina and from the non-Muslim road we could see the Mohammed’s Great Mosque. It was already night time and the minarets were as bright as football stadium lights. If you didn’t know, non-Muslins cannot enter Mecca or Medina so there are roads that go around them for the non-Muslims.
On the way back from Jeddah we drove through Riyadh which took us through Taif. Taif is located up in the mountains and is the summer residence of the Royal family and it is supposed to be cooler up there. Just outside of Taif on the mountainous two-lane road there is a troop of baboons. The Saudis stop alongside the road to look and feed them. This mother had a right arm that was useless. We surmised she had been hit by a car at one time or another. She was doing okay when we saw her.
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