Before I started my adventure, a lot of people warned me that world travel was not cheap. I agreed. But now I’ve changed my mind, just a little bit. From the sanctuary of my sister’s apartment in Abu Dhabi, I’ve plucked up the courage to check my finances and have come to the conclusion that […]

Across India, people are celebrating Diwali — the festival of light. Here in Jodhpur, the blue city, I gather that this has been translated over the years to mean that six year-old children let off impossibly loud firecrackers in the impossibly narrow streets; giggling in delight as tourists like me run for cover to lessen […]

A big thanks here must go to Annie and Martin, our generous hosts in Dubai, for letting us stay with them and for taking us out to show us the city. After wishing them farewell, we took off in a taxi across the desert from Dubai headed towards Abu Dhabi. The drive takes about an […]

According to my observations in Dubai, eighty-percent of the cars on the road that I see are American-style gas-guzzling SUVs. Of the remaining twenty-percent, you are more likely to see a Porsche 911 than a Honda Civic. After spending the last three months of my life around people who had nothing, I now found myself […]