Dubai
Dubai at night from the air is an amazing sight. I think they are trying to out do Las Vegas, with a good start at it. Street lights are close enough that the line on the ground are even and make it look like a map. Of course, it’s to be expected from a place that has the largest indoor skiing, tallest building in the world and the only 6-star hotel. They build their own islands..because they can. It’s a strange place. The hotel I was at, while being the cheapest I could find, was by no means a dump. I lucked out and because of a booking error, they put me in a suite..a nice one (i’ll post more on that later with pics). I had room service and tv…ooh.. Still ill, so I didnt really get out, which turned out to be not a bad thing. Dubai is hot, I mean really hot..hot enough it’s hard to breathe because of the density of the air. Went out on my balcony, took some pics, stood for a few minutes and decided that was enough. Winter, thats when to visit Dubai. The hotel staff were, well….not the most outgoing and friendly types. The hotel was run by Indians (dot. not feather), and to be honest they seemed kinda snobby… Went to the restaurant to get some OJ, and it was like I killed their cat or something..oh well, it was still a nice hotel. The streets are very nice and the drivers actually drive (see cairo for the opposite of this). The airport is very large and nicely kept. The was a Coldstone Creamery there, but it wasnt as good as the one in Seattle. They screen every bag, I think. I saw several tags on luggage that said ‘screened’ and didnt even realize mine had one too until Seattle when a guy asked me what I was in Dubai for. Well, I’m back here now, recovering….I’ll be posting some followups and such later…enjoy…
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lwanmtr
Welcome back! Great stories and pictures, Rob. Thanks for sharing all of this, and none of the “sickly” details, heh. I’ve been wondering when you were going to get into Dubai and share all of the glories. Sorry to hear about the heat and immobility. Maybe you experienced the point of enjoyment with Dubai in what you did do. Yesterday, I came across a web poll called “9 Devices That Are Clearly Compensating For A Small Penis” and Dubai built their way into the number 8 slot with it’s Jeddah Mile High Tower
with this being said, “Prince al-Walid bin Talal has told the world in no uncertain terms “Mine is bigger than yours.” And when the world asked, “Our what?,” he replied “Whatever, it doesn’t matter. I’m building a tower a goddamn mile high.”
This tower is specifically designed to kick the hell out of the still-in-progress half-mile-tall Burj Dubai tower, a country that has itself pretty much quit its day job to build ridiculous engineering projects full time. We suppose that’s what happens when a country has a million men of median age 27, a $37 billion dollar GNP and only 300,000 women.
That’s a difficult enough group dynamic for a free love commune, never mind an Islamic nation. The only reason the entire country of Dubai hasn’t simply burned down is because they channel their frustrations into things like the largest man-made harbor in the world, the largest indoor ski resort in the world, until they finally said “F*ck it, let’s just build a giant c*ck.”
That got the attention of Talal, the Saudi billionaire who knew he couldn’t stand idly by. Thus he proposed his $10 billion, mile-high project bringing him one step closer to his dream to make a building that could f*ck the moon.”
Well, I’m a fan of, and greatly enamored, with Dubai and I say that’s pretty much accurate.