Category: UAE
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Staying the Course
My last post was August 23rd. It has been over a month and a half since I’ve written, not that I have not tried. There are two draft posts sitting in the queue waiting for me to conjure the determination to finish them. Though, the chances of that I must admit are rather small. …
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Fear, Pain and Choice
This latest adventure took us across the barren Arabian Peninsula to the land of Salalah in Dohfar on the southern coast of Oman a round trip of nearly 3,000 kilometres by car. A stone throw from the Yemen border we found amazing beaches and astounding views of tropical like landscapes rising dramatically from the Arabian…
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Flying Home
This morning we drove Kirsten to the airport, it is her 13th birthday. She is taking a direct flight from Dubai to Seattle. It was difficult to say goodbye. She’ll be in Quesnel with family for the next 58 days. Flying is, of course, always exciting and generally memorable. For some unknown reason I think…
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Time well spent
I took the week off of work but made no definitive plans. In thinking about how I wanted to spend the week it came to me that I should spend some one on one time with my kids. It was Lilli’s tenth birthday on the 27th and I’ve been repeatedly stunned with how fast that…
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Mortality and Wadi Adventure Race 3
I’ve just spent several hours piecing together a short video of the race i participated in on the weekend. The hardest part… picking an appropriate sound track. In the end I think the choice was appropriate but feel free to judge me. Having spent all that time on the movie I really don’t feel like…
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Wadi Shawka
I mentioned in my last post that we spent some time recently at Wadi Shawka. I’m not sure exactly how to spell it because I’ve seen it spelled multiple ways including several different variations on signs in the village by that name you pass through to get into the Wadi. The best Wadis all seem to…
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Earlier in the week I signed myself and the kids up to participate in a trip to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque for February 16th. We were sent an itinerary, dress code and instructed to be promptly at the meeting place between 8:30 am and 9:00 am to be on the bus. 9:00 am came and…
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A first night apart
Yesterday after church about 25 men and a few young men rode off into the desert for a guys night of desert camping. What happens when you send a bunch of men into the wilderness who are eager to recapture some of their youth and a few boys eager to be men? Well, potentially a…
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Desert Dwelling
It is always fun to see camels meandering along the road. This may be because they are still so foreign looking to us. Seeing a moose or bear in Canada was always novel (just because the experience is relatively rare) but a horse or cow is simply part of the landscape. Camels are ultimately a…
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Staycation
I’m not sure when my last post was… likely nearly a month ago. This is a sure sign of the normality life has taken on here. I believe we are all doing very well. Kirsten had a real bout of serious homesickness last Friday but she seems to have rallied very well. There are some…
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