September 23, 2005 | In: Travel

Middle East country hopping, second coming

Bahrain was the end of the first leg of this year’s round of Middle East student recruiting. The tour was good. It was great meeting up with tour mates from last spring, specially Mike Wigal and Jason Combs. We didn’t get to do that dive in Bahrain as planned (but Mike and Jason dived in Beirut, which I skipped). We are already drafting plans for a potential trip to South America next summer.

Random thoughts:

  • There is something about flashy 5-star hotels that just doesn’t appeal to me that much (other than the crazy room rates)
  • The heat and humidity of the Gulf makes the Egyptian summer feel like great weather!
  • Gulf ISP’s suck.
  • Leaving to Morocco in 11 hours, where I’ll be going solo to Tangier, Casablanca and Rabat. Possibly Tunisia and/or Libya after that. I bought Shadow Divers in Bahrain Airport, should be a good read during the friggin 5-hour layover to Tangier (I should’ve just gone by car/bus)

    My digicam is broken, so peep the pictures taken by Mike and Jason.

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