Part II: It’s Good to Be Home
Start with Part I here. Short version: Victor became terribly sick with a fever and rash on our 15-hour flight from Dubai to Newark. There was good news and bad news. Good news – Victor did make it back to the U.S. Bad news – we were landing in Newark […]
Long Way Home
On the morning of December 31st, Victor started running a fever. It wasn’t too bad, and he didn’t even want to slow down or skip any of the sightseeing we had planned for that day. I gave him a few pills of ibuprofen and forgot about it. We celebrated that […]
Unexpected Oman
There were many ways Oman surprised me, mostly due to my complete lack of knowledge about its history, politics, and, as crazy as it sounds, geographical location. For whatever reason, I only considered countries separated by a land border to be Oman’s neighbors and cultural influencers. It never occurred to […]
Paying the Price for Visiting Oman
Recently, we did something we had never done before. We went for an extended trip to a very expensive country. Or so we thought we did. Oman was our first Gulf country, and all we heard before our visit was that the oil-rich countries of the region were not the […]
In the Heart of Oman: Exploring Sharqiya Sands
One of my favorite memories from Egypt was the two days and one night we spent in the White Desert with the endless starry sky, surreal white rock formations, and sand dunes glowing in the sunlight. I’ve wanted to go back for over a decade, and Oman finally offered a […]
Essential Oman – Forts and Castles
When we traveled to Thailand 10 years ago, one of the planning concerns was how to see as many Thai temples as possible without being “templed out”. Although by the end of the trip, beautiful Thai temples did start to resemble each other, we left the country just in time […]
