From Dubai to Continent #5, Last Stop Before Home

I'm currently laying by our pool in Dubai, about to go to our room to clean up before we head to the airport for our flight to Cairo. Our last destination on this incredible adventure. 

Dubai is incredible. I've described it as a mash up between Vegas, Disney and the Jetsons. Everything is new, tall, and fancy. In the middle of the desert. On the beautiful Persian Gulf. The city is not walkable and not just because of the heat. The city has been built in little areas, all relatively far apart, so driving, taxis or the metro are necessities. Things don't seem all that far because the buildings are tall and you can see everything! But it's a mirage. Roads are only constructed in certain areas so it often feels like the long way around. It's a bit disjointed, but it's like nowhere I've ever been.

And next, Cairo...

Heating Things Up

Tomorrow we leave the amazing country of Turkey and its wonderful people to venture to the desert...but this is not just any desert...

Tomorrow we fly to Dubai.

I'm expecting the city to be a spectacle. Like Vegas, but bigger, louder, flashier and much more extreme. For starters, we're going to have extreme heat.

Yes, that's the forecast for the next few days! Yikes! I expect we're going to spend a lot of time indoors (hello world's largest mall with indoor ice skating rink, world's tallest building, and an indoor ski resort), and also a bunch by the pool.

This should be a city like no other. Let the extremism begin!