I really am surprised looking back at how quickly a month can pass by. The largest contributing factors in this time anomaly would probably be that I was home on vacation and it was the Christmas season. The travel adventure to return to work has rated the strangest of my travels to date. Beginning with my departure from home I encountered an airport that had canceled all flights for the remainder of the day. Not a good start but to have an extra day home was not bad. Once the flights were all re-booked I flew east, then back west over top of home, then east again over top of home and the 2nd airport. This part of the journey was a 13 hour flight in the middle of the middle row (not good - I'm a window man). The flight was on one of the new A380's which was impressive. Arrived in Dubai without a VISA (now required for Canadians) which meant I had to stay in the airport for 2 days without luggage. Managed to get where I needed to be for transfer to terminal 2 with much chaos and made it to the non commercial flight to get here. At this point I was certain my luggage was lost forever. To end it all I arrived at my destination and was pleasantly surprised to see my luggage waiting for me. And that - as they say - is that.
After another week of waiting for transportation on a C-130 (another interesting flight), I have settled in for another long stay here at home sweet desert home.
I have plans to go back and post in some details from the week in Dubai from my trip home on vacation as well as some vacation photos. It is also my intent to try to post at least something of interest on a loosely regular basis.
