United Arab Emirates
Dubai 2017 -- Abu Dhabi 1992
Dubai 2017
Dubai
2017
UAE flag
December 2, 2017
Downtown Dubai - note the Burj Khalifah, tallest building in the world
Burj Khalifah
Opera House
Burj al-'Arab
Tiger Woods once teed off from the platform on the upper right
Downtown Dubai
Marina District
Traffic
Architecture
Architecture
Etisalat tower - the phone/cable/internet company - Etisalat is the Arabic word for communications
Traffic
A yacht - not mine
A Bentley SUV - not mine
Mall of the Emirates
Ski Dubai - an indoor ski slope
Shoe shine chair
Emily and Georgianne
Rick
Sunset
Sunset
Dhows and skyscrapers
Dhows and skyscrapers
Manufactured in Iran
Wooden hulls
Wooden hull - Persian numbers 11482
Wooden hull - Persian numbers 11482
Not exactly a container ship
Break bulk cargo
Iranian cargo - the lot is labeled "Habib 55"
Falcon Center
Falcons for sale - $3000 to $5000
Veterinary clinic for hunting falcons
Falcon training devices
Drone with basket to drop training bait
Hoods, appropriately called "burqa'" (burka) in Arabic
Hood maker
Art depicting Shaylk Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktum, emir of Dubai and avid falconer
Jumeirah al-Qasr hotel
Rolls Royce - Rolls Royce - Bentley - Ferrari
Typical discerning clientele - Georgianne
Burj al-'Arab
Abu Dhabi
1992
Dhow in the canal off the Gulf
Rick was sent to the Defense Attache Office at the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi to temproarily replace the previous defense attache, who had been fired. He was in training for his assignment to be the air attache in Damascus, Syria.
In 1992, the Emirates were kind of a sleepy place whose tremendous oil wealth had just begun to transform the place into what it is today. Then, it was pretty quiet. This is the old fort in Abu Dhabi.
Roundabout with the flags of the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council
Fountain on the corniche along the Gulf
Pretty impressive entrance
Downtown 1992 - the contruction boom was just beginning
Downtown 1992
Downtown 1992
Downtown 1992
Downtown 1992
The Emiris spend a huge amount of money for irrigation to keep the cities green - there is a fleet of these trucks to water everything.
Around the Emirates
A welcome in Dubai
Dubai
Dubai - the Arabic letters on the building to the left advertises Rado watches
The gold souq in Sharjah
Sharjah
Ras al-Khaymah
The pearl museum
Market on the desert highway to Fujayrah
Market on the desert highway to Fujayrah
Market on the desert highway to Fujayrah
Desert scenes
Desert scenes
Desert scenes
Desert scenes
Desert scenes
Desert scenes
Work Related
I tried to monitor the UAE president's travels by watching his airplane. I did not take this picture; I was never able to get this close
While there, the embassy in Syria bought a new car for the attache office. I was directed to drive it alone across 1800 miles of desert
The export plates
My six day trip from Abu Dhabi to Damascus