The other day we rose before dawn and piled into our friend Francis's car with the goal of greeting a certain persons birthday morning from atop one of the UAE's several crumbling mountain tops. After a bit of road diversion craziness, endemic to the world's largest construction site, we settled for renting ATVs instead. This impromptu switch from a quiet pre-dawn hike to the bone rattling chain saw buzz of a quad bike (UK term) is a decent metaphor for life in Dubai. I wish I had pictures from our ride, but I managed to drain the camera battery trying to get a G rated shot of the rental site's priapic monkey. This was the first time we'd ever been completely surrounded by dunes, amid a landscape free of roads and buildings, it was spectacular but I'm afraid you'll have to visit if you want to see it.
Presently, I'm writing an article for Freehold Weekly, the UAE's premier wrestling journal. Actually it's a Real Estate magazine, if you have any astute observations about the bay area market, send me a quote before the 12th.
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