Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Beginning
My desire to travel and having a cousin living in the United Arab Emirates, brings to me to here, establishing a blog to tell the tale of my visit to Abu Dhabi. I can remember my cousin Dan, making a comment on his facebook page, that his wife Lisa was applying for a job in Abu Dhabi as an English teacher. I asked myself, "where is Abu Dhabi", then I kinda forgot about it. Yet, while traveling through Europe last summer, I saw posters and signs for AD all over the place, thinking to myself "Dan and Lisa live there, how cool is that?" Then, on my birthday last year, the final Formula One race of the season... yep, in Abu Dhabi! The place looked amazing, or at least the track did and most of you know, that's a huge attraction to me. That started a little bit of conversation between my cousin and I about his new home. Continuing the trail of events, when this year's season of Formula One started, one of the teams are sponsored by Abu Dhabi, to encourage ticket sales to the final race of 2010.
Upon my divorce in 2007, I had found a desire to treat myself to birthday trips. Mexico in 2007 (although it was delayed a month), San Francisco in 2008 and Las Vegas in 2009. This year, my trip has been kicked up a notch, Asia! PLUS, frosting on the cake, I'm going to the Formula One race in Abu Dhabi, and a bonus Prince concert the night of the race. Dan and Lisa are wonderfully awesome people and have welcomed me to visit them, with a enthusiastic "Dude, of course you can come visit.... you are always welcome" response when I asked back in June (I think). So, preparation has been drawn out, but I'm very excited, I have just over 2 weeks to go before I leave. November 8th is my takeoff date and November 16th I'll return.
Keep checking back to see what my adventure entail, possibly a trip to the newly opened Hard Rock Cafe in Dubai and a ride on a camel!
*side note; Asia is my 4th continent, 3 more to go, all South of the Equator, I'm excited for those too.
Upon my divorce in 2007, I had found a desire to treat myself to birthday trips. Mexico in 2007 (although it was delayed a month), San Francisco in 2008 and Las Vegas in 2009. This year, my trip has been kicked up a notch, Asia! PLUS, frosting on the cake, I'm going to the Formula One race in Abu Dhabi, and a bonus Prince concert the night of the race. Dan and Lisa are wonderfully awesome people and have welcomed me to visit them, with a enthusiastic "Dude, of course you can come visit.... you are always welcome" response when I asked back in June (I think). So, preparation has been drawn out, but I'm very excited, I have just over 2 weeks to go before I leave. November 8th is my takeoff date and November 16th I'll return.
Keep checking back to see what my adventure entail, possibly a trip to the newly opened Hard Rock Cafe in Dubai and a ride on a camel!
*side note; Asia is my 4th continent, 3 more to go, all South of the Equator, I'm excited for those too.
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