In Summary, Let Me Say

I travel because I like to spend part of my time out of my comfort zone.  Our trip to Qatar, Kuwait, and Dubai certainly qualifies on that count.  That’s not to say that I was ever uneasy on our trip (unless you count the time that I spent with my hand tangled in the bowels of an airplane seat).  We had all the creature comforts one could ask for.  Great, but long, flights.  First class hotels.  Great food.  Wonderful hospitality.  Yet we knew that this was something out or our prior experience or even out of our world.  It wasn’t just the women wearing their abayas and veils or the men and their dishdashis, nor was it the incessant calls to prayer that...