OK, laugh with me - the actual internation date "line" is somewhere near Alaska or Tahiti, but when you hop on a 15 hour flight, you might as well assume there's a date change (espcially if you're heading east). Well, it turns out my flight to Yemen left without me - 14 hours before I landed. Ooops. And I thought I was being all "good" keeping track of such things. Are we laughing yet!?. Doh!
Oh well. Frankly, this is the part of international travel that I love - the renegotiating plans en route. A small "cancellation fee" and booking a diffent flight with a different airline and I should have it all worked out.
Perhaps it's the travel gods trying to tell me not to go to Yemen. I'm not listening.
On another note, my email doesn't seem to work (today, at this moment, in this internet cafe) - so, well... yeah... I guess that's the email gods telling me to leave you and your mesages behind and enjoy myself.
For the moment, I think I'll listen to theses gods.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
UAE or Bust
It all started with my cousin Rachel. (Actually it "all started" back when I was 13 and I started flying from one place to another. Ever since, I just can't seem to get enough of international destinations.) Anyhow, Rachel...
She currently lives just south of Dubai and she offered me a place to stay if I felt like exploring Dubai and the rest of the UAE. Well, one thing led to another and I've decided that "the rest of the UAE" wasn't a big enough trip. So, although UAE is "home base" for the next month, I'll be taking a collection of side trips to locations in the "vicinity":
Muscat, Oman
Sana'a, Yemen
Beirut, Lebanon
Katmandu, Nepal (ok, we're using a very broad definition of "vicinity")
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE
And just for good luck, let's throw in Salt Lake CIty Utah, Pocatello Idaho, and the Lava Hot Springs for good measure.
I know some of you (even though you've actually clicked through to this link) have little interest in following such a crazy trip. I'm offended. Not really, it's actually completely fine either way!
I'm actually quite surprised, though, at the number of people who have asked that I do just this: keep the ivagabond travel blog up-to-date. I suspect internet will be sparse at times and easily found at others, but - for my blurking friends - I'll do what I can (with limited time and resources) to update this.
And for Erik... Yes, I'll take a few snapshots.
But for now, I just need to finish packing before my brain shuts down. 2008 has been a uniquely "taxing" (for lack of a better word) year, and I'm looking forward to (if nothing else) 15 hours on an airplane to debrief, and then several weeks of newness. As I told Jared months ago when I started thinking about this trip, "travel is something that I constantly look forward to. I guess it's my release."
Here's to release time.
She currently lives just south of Dubai and she offered me a place to stay if I felt like exploring Dubai and the rest of the UAE. Well, one thing led to another and I've decided that "the rest of the UAE" wasn't a big enough trip. So, although UAE is "home base" for the next month, I'll be taking a collection of side trips to locations in the "vicinity":
Muscat, Oman
Sana'a, Yemen
Beirut, Lebanon
Katmandu, Nepal (ok, we're using a very broad definition of "vicinity")
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE
And just for good luck, let's throw in Salt Lake CIty Utah, Pocatello Idaho, and the Lava Hot Springs for good measure.
I know some of you (even though you've actually clicked through to this link) have little interest in following such a crazy trip. I'm offended. Not really, it's actually completely fine either way!
I'm actually quite surprised, though, at the number of people who have asked that I do just this: keep the ivagabond travel blog up-to-date. I suspect internet will be sparse at times and easily found at others, but - for my blurking friends - I'll do what I can (with limited time and resources) to update this.
And for Erik... Yes, I'll take a few snapshots.
But for now, I just need to finish packing before my brain shuts down. 2008 has been a uniquely "taxing" (for lack of a better word) year, and I'm looking forward to (if nothing else) 15 hours on an airplane to debrief, and then several weeks of newness. As I told Jared months ago when I started thinking about this trip, "travel is something that I constantly look forward to. I guess it's my release."
Here's to release time.
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