A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by TravelPod blogger Shadocg. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Drive All NIght Drive All Night After finishing a hard day’s work, I rushed home to do some last minute preparation, then slept while Dawn organized things and got us ready to go. At 10 we left to meet up with friends; however, one friend forgot some things at his house, but we coordinated by having me go to Starbucks while he rushed home to grab his missing items. Finally, at 11 PM we were on the road. We drove through the night, winding our way through small Saudi towns looking for the right exit to keep us heading to Jordan. Daylight saw us in the middle of nowhere, driving down a highway that led us to the north. Parallelling the highway was a pipeline - we are not sure if it was oil or water -that followed the road above and below the ground until we parted at some point. In the town of Turaif, in the far north of Saudi Arabia, we came across a beautiful mosque which had to have been the largest in the region. From there we turned north-west and finally made it to the border. End of the story, pass into Jordan, right? Wrong. First, we went through the preliminary customs check - passports, multiple exit-re-entry visas (which you pay for!) in the passports and valid, istimara (ownership papers for our Trooper). From there we were sent on to the second stage - actually passing out of Saudi into Jordan. Oops - all the ...