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Category: Desert

  • Navigating a Doha Nightmare: The Trial of Getting Home

    My journey home from Doha was a trial, quite literally. It turns out the paperwork that was supposed to have been done back in January, regarding the settlement I had to agree to or be stuck in Doha for two years fighting fraudulent charges on my credit card from 2006, was not completed. I opted…

  • Exit stage left

    Well I’ve started my exit procedure for the Arab games… So far I’m a little freaked, not that I’m leaving, but that they’ve taken all forms of identification that I can use to be recognized as a US citizen… I have no ID card and no passport in hand; since rule #1 when traveling internationally…

  • Brain Dump

    What to say, I’ve been at a loss for words recently and I’m not quite sure why… I’ve been busy as hell, but I just don’t have much to say I guess since its really just the same things I’ve been doing since I got back to the sandbox. It seems I have a routine,…

  • "You’re still in the middle of the fucking desert…"

    So it got a little warm here in Tucson over the weekend… Not nearly as hot as the middle of the summer in Doha, but still pretty hot… I made it out last night with the rest of my co-workers to a country western club, and everyone knows how much I love country music. Sometimes…

  • Vegas, how do I hate thee

    I’ve never been a fan of Vegas, even with it’s draws of scantily clad people and cheap drinks if you’re throwing money away, I’ve ever been happy here. This is a place of bad memories and frankly I’ve never been drawn to try and make new ones here. But I’m here now and I might…

  • Uluru / Ayres Rock

    Ayres Rock (Uluru) is absolutely stunning, as well as the Olga’s, which are a lesser known formation about 20k from Ayres Rock. The colors are of nothing I’ve seen before, it really is as red as the photos I’ve seen before coming here, and the detail in the rock is more impressive then the photos…

  • Uluru…

    After spending just a few minutes in the presence of Uluru your first thought is “why the hell didn’t I buy the fly net for my head?” I’ve never met a fly as tenacious as the bush fly in Australia, the damn thing will crawl up you nose if you let it, and even if…

  • Clutter

    Is what’s in my mind right now… I’m going to be able to pay off all my credit card debt and pay for the various monthly bills while I’m travelling for the next three months. Not only that but I’m going to be able to travel for the next three months to Thailand (again) and…

  • The Games…

    Before I got this random email from a guy working for the Doha Asian Games, I had never heard of the Asian games or Doha for that matter. I’m not sure I could have even found the place without Google Earth. I used to be afraid of change, I hated it. I couldn’t stand changing…

  • The numbers speak for themselves

    The Numbers 1. 14 guys       a. 3 from Sri Lanka       b. 3 from Nepal       c. 6 from India       d. 1 from Australia       e. 1 from America 2. 53 days straight 3. 1166 hours worked 4. 11 golf carts 5. 8 phone calls to Hydro Turf for golf cart problems 6. 3…