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Yesterday we bid a fond farewell to Istanbul, at least until our return home, when we have a brief layover at the new airport. Incidentally, this airport is huge — it’s called Istanbul Havalimanı, so I decided to look up who this new airport was named after. Turns out, Havalimanı simply means airport in Turkish. […]
Read More Istanbul in the MirrorI’ll just leave this here. We’re on our way to Nairobi and getting punchy. Might get taken down on Youtube because of the audio, sorry if it does!
Read More Istanbul Airport FunNot much energy left to write, but here are a bunch of pictures. One more day in Istanbul and then on to Nairobi. Finding great food and drink and lots of friendly people.
Read More Istanbul Photo DumpArriving into Turkey was different than Liz and I had remembered and expected. In fact, the airport was almost unrecognizable — in a good way. We breezed through the visa/passport checks and all the terminals and bag claim areas were brand spanking new. Quite a transformation! The best part was that we hoped we would […]
Read More the arrivalToday is one of those lost days that are a necessity for any overseas trip. Technically not on the road until around 2pm, when Ed & Linda showed up to ferry us to the bus stop we’d been gathering our gear all morning. The bus was uneventful, and when we arrived at O’Hare we were […]
Read More The Nearly DepartedI guess it’s a common technique in improvisational comedy to say “yes, and…” when you’re reacting to or accepting the comedic baton from one of your on-stage performers. The idea is that you can keep a better flow going on stage by being positive, taking their ideas and moving forward, rather than starting over from […]
Read More You Say YesOur short time in Oman is coming to an end. It seems like a good time for a word on some of our general experiences with religion while traveling in these Islamic countries. More than anywhere else in our lifetime of travels, we felt like foreign guests in Qatar and Oman. Like anywhere else we travel, […]
Read More Oman – Wrapping Up + IslamToday we popped over to the The National Museum of Oman, in old Muscat. It provided a brief overview of the history of Oman over the last few thousand years, which we were ready to contextualize. Plenty of artifacts from the shipbuilding era along with some nice slick propaganda throwing a bit of shade towards the […]
Read More Oman – Day Two: Historical Muscat and Low MountainsYou’ll see the word wadi all over the place in Oman, and that’s because it’s the Arabic word for valley and there are a ton of them here. It’s an extremely vertical country, which is a big change from Qatar. Wadi Shab translates, more poetically, to “gorge between the cliffs” and it’s one of the […]
Read More Oman – Day One: Wadi Shab