Ethanol not only powers cars, it can get you wasted

Or kill you, depends on the way "it is cut." (Straight from Susan, our Kuwati host.) We got into Kuwait, and the first thing Susan wanted to do (after she showed us her apartment) was go party. Kuwait is a dry country, and most people resort to making their own alcohol using any and everything they can find. At Susan's place I had a glass of wine that was made using rice (and tasted like it too.) We then moved on to pre-party at some ex US Navy guys' place where they had an ethanol Jack Daniel's (see first pic) which was a 3 on the resemblance scale to actual Jack Daniel's. Next to it was a bottle of pure ethanol which is being touted in the states as an alternative fuel for your car but in Kuwait is touted as something that will fuck you up that you can hide in the innocence of a water bottle. I will never, ever, ever live in a dry country.

Anyway, this "party" that we were headed to was apparently out in the desert. Way, way, way, way, way out in the desert. We drove over an hour in a sandstorm in the middle of the night towards Iraq to go to this fucking desert party. The picture of the McDonald's sign was taken out in the middle of fucking nowhere were our convoy of about 4 cars met another convoy of 4 cars to go find this mystical desert party. On to the next post...