Sidewalks like a baby’s skin: clean and unmarked from the ravages of time and age. Buildings made of glass and steel rising from the literal sand. Scores of cranes dot the unimaginably long skyline. Ribbons of highway snaking through purpose-built under development mini-cities, that are the size of most cities’ “downtowns.” This is Dubai. Some […]
United Arab Emirates
2021 New Year’s Eve in Dubai: the glamour, the spectacle, the sheer ostentatiousness. That’s what I hoped for, and that was what was delivered, and then some. Welcoming 2021 in Dubai, has been the only part of the original “My Grand Adventure” plan that has not changed. After a year of significant uncertainty and calamity, […]