Today's photo is of a Caterpillar D8 (or D9, I'm not a Cat expert) cutting through the top of an escarpment to create a new pass.
In the bottom of a wadi like this is not the best place to break down. Actually, I've no recollection of breaking down. I'm guessing we had some problem though because the hood of the Land Rover is open.
I never really enjoyed staying in Tripoli. I much preferred being in the desert. We used a variety of methods for our Libyan commute but in most cases it involved a Land Rover somewhere along the route.
When I first went to Libya in 1984 I was an 'Assistant Seismologist'. My job function was to determine the static corrections needed to apply to the seismic data so…