No Fun for the Busy

Wish I could go visit my sister Cynthia who is doing legal work until December in Arusha in Tanzania, but I have my hands full trying to find and furnish an apartment here plus planning to go back and forth to Pittsburgh twice before December. The big event coming up is the Dubai Rugby Sevens Dec 4-5 for which Neal has a big block of tickets. We should be in the new apartment with some furniture by then?

Janet and Hack will be here Oct. 9 and I'll fly back with them. No desert safari for Hack!

Dubai still seems very friendly and not nearly as scary as I expected except perhaps for driving, which I am just starting to try. I'm told the locals are extremely lazy, and all the good workers are expats. Americans seem to be well-liked but not very numerous, which is nice for us as we feel special. But we also feel very old, often the oldest people we see, which is not so nice. There don't seem to be any retired expats here, since you have to leave once you lose your work visa. One way to address the health care problem? It is possible and apparently pretty easy to stay legal without a work visa provided you cross the border and get a new tourist visa every thirty days. I hear Oman is nice.