Dan and I head back to Dubai in hurry after not finding much in Oman. At the border I get a fresh stamp for another 30days, but I know I’ll be gone before that. I’ve already booked a flight that departs next week to Kochin, India. The rest of my Dubai experience is a series [...]

For me Oman is a visa run much like it is for a lot of the expats residing and working in Dubai. Since the working visa is such an arduous task to get in UAE, requiring an inordinate amount of paperwork, time, and even more hoop jumping, most people just work on the free default [...]

I ended up spending New Years in Dubai which was should have been spectacular. But thanks to a last minute order from Shiek Mohammad all New Years celebrations in Dubai had to be cancelled to show solidarity for Gaza. Thus all party events at all the various hotels had to be canceled. There was a [...]

Dubai is truly a unique place. It’s a melting pot of cultures, a concrete jungle of extravagant over the top architecture, a vastly distant lower and upper class and a culture that is truly confused between traditions and modernization. My initial impression of Dubai was positive as a whole. It was somewhere I could see [...]

Christmas in Dubai. How polar opposite can one get to celebrating a Christian Holiday in a Muslim country. Nonetheless with the western expat majority here in Dubai, local businesses have no choice but to sway to the majority. There are Christmas decorations everywhere, but sadly no one has the holiday off from work. I [...]

Today I journey from Wadi Rum down to Acaba. The taxi driver tries to rip us off by dropping us off at the outskirts of town, what a surprise. I think there is a special place in hell for taxi drivers.
After yelling back and forth for a good 30min and me whipping out the [...]

I booked a tour of Wadi Rum through the Valentine Hotel. I wasn’t sure if this was a rip off or not, but after arriving in Petra it seems that people were paying twice as much as I paid for the same tour. We have six people crammed in our Land Rover Discovery SUV. There [...]

That morning I was talking to Yoko in the lobby when a familiar voice says my name. It turns out that Brian, a friend of a friend, that I had met in Dubai is also at Petra. We decide to check out Petra together and all jump in the truck for the morning ride down [...]