Finally, A Bed!, February 6, 2010

It is 6pm local time, Arifjan, and I am in a single person room (for the first time in my career, rank does have its privileges), in my bed about to get a looooong nights sleep. I don't have to report to work until 1:00 tomorrow. I've got good timing because the super bowl is tomorrow night at 2:30 am, so the workday on Monday will start late as well...

So, adding in the time at Ali Al Salem and the drive to Arifjan, the total time in travel was a whopping 70 hours...

About that drive...as I looked out over the vast, barren landscape, visions of burning man came into my head. The Kuwaitis actually move to tents out in the desert during certain times of the year...they do it to "get away from it all"...it sounds like it is a sort of pilgrimage. Burning man has nothing on these people.

I walked around camp a bit and actually was dismayed at all the sand, looking very much like a Playa, and wondered why in the hell I would want to go to Burning Man after I get home???  Then it came to me...naked people. Here are some pics of my room.

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