6.10.2008

Land of Oil

Bus to Plane

9:45pm I am standing in a bus filled with people that's taking me
from my gate at Dubai International Airport to my plane thats already
sitting on the runway. Isn't that how planes get hijacked in the
movies? I really wasnt expecting this in Dubai.
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10:13pm Walking up these steps and looking at this plane helps me
understand why John Travolta has a couple of planes in the hanger.
These things look magnificent when your looking back at it from the
cockpit door.
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Okay, now smoke is filling the cabin, it looks the cabin is a club in
Vegas and the fog machines just turned on. Another first for Dubai, I
am officially on the worlds largest flying humidifier. I guess
there's a first for everything.
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Im flying Al Jazeera Airlines, I think maybe it's owned by the Royal Family in Qatar..? The Emir of Qatar is also the genius who started Al-Jazeera. On the speakers and overhead monitors they just recited and displayed a prayer for traveling. Pretty interesting. This would never happen in the states.
90 minute flight, 20% battery left on the iPhone - enough to listen to a few cuts on the new Usher album, post these via mobile blogging, and read one Busines Week and one Time magazine.I'm set for a good flight.
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