Greeting from sunny (sandy) Dubai. Half the fun of travel is getting there...especially if you fly United. I was four pounds over on one of my suitcases and they wanted to charge me $200! So I unpacked got it down to 51 pounds and they let it go. Along with the other suitcase, so I had to beg my new friends to trake my stuff. Thank you Margaret. Then I needed to check some medical supplies, let's say it together..'$200' "
How many carry on bags Am I allowed?" "Two" turns out. Ok then I guess I have a $299 carry on. My final comment to the agent, "I wonder why people hate United?" But then at the gate I gate checked it because of a small airplane. "Do you want this checked to Dubai?" the agent asked. " Why yes, I do," I said. Take that United........
I write this at 3am. That's 3pm for you and my brain. Am sleeping on a couch in an industrial apartment. Last guy here gets the couch. Came back from disco dancing and my Kenyan roommate had made my bed. Cool.
The advantage of being an old guy at a disco is that I actually danced. Too old to pose. Of course I came back broke after everyone borrowed Dubai Dirhams. My drink was either a nickle or three hundred dollars, I'm not sure.......
A nickle or $300...funny!!! I hope it was somewhere in the middle.
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Foreign money can be an adventure. The last time they had to devalue currency in Turkey, they also had to re-design their calculators--to add more spaces for digits...:-)
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