Greetings from Doha, the capital (and pretty much only city in) the lovely country of Qatar. I'm only here for 24 hours or so, en route to Islamabad.
Unfortunately, I don't really have any photos to share with you, but essentially Doha is a city in the desert. We landed at about 5pm this evening into the teeth of a mild sandstorm, which had the dual effect of 1)confusing me as to whether it was day or night, and 2)making it almost impossible to tell what was land and what was sky.
I didn't take any pictures from the plane of Qatar. But, if I did, they woulda looked like this:
My last day in DC was great...I had a nice, long skype video chat with the Paris bunch (all four of them, including a sleepy Theo), checked out of my hotel around 2pm, and basically spent 3-4 hours walking around DC. The weather was gorgeous (sunny and about 70 degrees, without the oppressive DC summer humidity), and I didn't really have any place specific I had to be. I walked through some parks, strolled by my new house (occupied by renters) to have a look, and stopped for lunch at "Dos Gringos," a favorite little hang-out joint.
Hope you enjoy the visit, however brief. A friend spent a summer there at Cornell's campus; it was a long way from Oklahoma, but he loved it.
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