Tuesday, August 28: Today is my last day in the USA for a year. I was only here for less than a month, and it definitely wasn’t enough!! Now, my vacation in Greece is calling and so is my work at the university in Oman, so I must return tonight. 😦
My plane leaves at 11 p.m. from Washington Dulles International Airport and will arrive in Muscat on Wednesday evening at 10:30 p.m. It will be a long flight! My friend Mario is due to pick me up at the airport, at which time we’ll drive to the university so I can pick up my car. It will probably be 1:00 or 1:30 a.m. before I get home.
Hopefully I can sleep when I get there. Because on Thursday, I need to unpack stuff I’m bringing from the USA for another year, and pack for fun and relaxation in Greece. I get on the plane again at 6 a.m. on Friday morning heading for Athens.
So, in response to Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post, I am posting a place that I can only see (or not really even see but just imagine) from a distance: Jebel Akhdar in Oman. By the middle of September, I will be back there for work and will be able to see the lovely Green Mountain from up close. But for today, here it is, from a distance.
Goodbye America and hello Oman! And hello to Greece as well. I will see you all in Oman for one day on Thursday! Then I’m off again!
I hope you’ll come visit me in Oman: a nomad in the land of nizwa and in Greece: greek wanderings. I won’t be taking my computer with me to Greece, so probably won’t post anything about my trip until I return back to Oman on September 14.
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To participate in Jake’s Sunday Post, see SUNDAY POST: From a Distance. He writes: Distance Shots : A view in which the subject is a long distance from the camera or appears to be far away; also called a long shot.
Safe travels abroad. I know you’ll have fun gathering plenty of writing material taking incredible pictures.
Yes, you know me well, Lynne! I think you would love the same thing! Travel, photography and writing about it all are my passions!! Thanks for the good wishes… 🙂
Excellent shot from the distance my friend , Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks Jake!
A long night ahead. Take care Cath. Fab time in Greece!
Am at the airport now just waiting for my 11 pm flight…. I can’t wait for Greece. There, unlike at home, I’ll have absolutely NO obligations! That I will enjoy!! 🙂
Be safe, have fun in Greece!
Thank you Louise!! I’m so excited, but I’m afraid I’ll be worn out with all the travel time!!
Have a wonderful trip (to Oman and to and back from Greece), take lots of pictures and we will wait with baited breath. But, how can you travel without a computer?!
Thank you so much Carol. I always travel without a computer so that I don’t waste time on it. Plus it’s too heavy and I would always worry about losing it, as when I’m in Oman it’s my lifeline to the world. I think an iPad would be great…. that’s on my wish list. Less bulky and then I wouldn’t risk losing my computer!! I will definitely take lots of pictures!! 🙂
Safe trip and have fun, cb 🙂
Thank you Marco. Am at Doha International Airport right now. Leaving for Muscat in about an hour!
Hope you had a happy flighting and arrived alive 🙂
Thanks and yes, I did. And I am alive… 🙂
And in need of a drink?
Maybe not at 9:21 a.m. as it is here now. I have too much to do in the day ahead. But maybe this afternoon if I head to Muscat to spend the night before my 6 a.m. flight tomorrow!!
if I still had drinkies I would say it’s never to early, lol. It’s 7:25AM here now – so you’re only about 2 hours ahead of us.
Ahh, that’s good to know. So I’ll know your future before you do!
In a matter of speaking, yes! How weird is that? So Miss Fortune Teller, what’s in store for me today, lol.
Well, since I can only predict two hours ahead, I’d say a nice morning drinking coffee and playing with your cats and then a nice run in the sunshine!
I wish. Cats under the bed, can’t run (yet) but I foresee a spell of trolley rage at about 10am when I have to buy supplies. Re the coffee, correct!
Oh darn, I missed the trolley rage. I would have never seen trolleys in the picture!! They are so outside my realm of experience….
really? how so? I dislike it when peeps park in the middle of an aisle and go off somewhere else. you try to squeeze by and they think you are trying to nick their stuff. or when they nick your stuff, your bags, your trolley! or they slam into you, by accident of course.
Wishing you happy travelling. Look forward to reading about you adventures in Greece, with photos of course. 🙂
Thanks adinparadise! I’m at Doha International Airport now, heading to Muscat in an hour. I will definitely take lots of pictures in Greece!!! Can’t wait… 🙂
Safe flight. 🙂
Thank you! I’m home safely now, and at 2:30 a.m. am wide awake. I have a feeling my sleep will be messed up for a while!! 🙂
have fun in Greece!
Thank you marina! I did and am now back home. I’ll start posting soon about my trip!
Soooooo envious! Have a GREAT time in Greece! Look forward to reading about it!
Thanks Tahira! I’m home now; I’ll be starting to post about it soon!