Well, we hope to meet up with 8 of our East Coast travel buddies in Abu Dhabi around 8:00 in the evening on the 29th (U.A.E. time). I hope that they are able to get out before Frankenstorm arrives! I will ASSume that all will go smoothly, but who knows what Mother Nature has in mind. It's always something!
We're finishing up our packing now (sort of) and will complete that chore sometime tomorrow. Couldn't sleep much last night thinking about all that we will be doing.
It should be a blast.
I will attempt to post here every time I have a glimmer of internet access. Can't promise how much that will be after the first few days because we'll be pretty much off the grid walking in the foothills of the Himalayas.
I'll try to post some images from Abu Dhabi - they have lots of internet access there I bet......
Talk to you all soon.
Status update. I got a call this morning from Rich who had been trying to find out what was happening on the inbound flight from Abu Dhabi to New York. The Etihad sight said that that flight had been cancelled. That would have been real bad! He called Etihad and got someone at their call center in Mumbai that was looking at exactly what he was. The agent told him the flight was cancelled. However, we determined by watching Flight tracker that his flight was in fact air bound and he didn't have to pursue other ways to get out of New York before Sandy got there. He was actually looking into flying to Chicago to get on our flight later tonight.
As of 5:30 this evening both of our flights have landed in Chicago and New York from Abu Dhabi. So, we are scheduled to leave from O'Hare at 9:20 and the other 8 from New York at 11:05 (10:05 our time). We should land in Abu Dhabi within minutes of each other. I would say it's a pretty good chance we will all get off as scheduled. Fingers crossed........
Now we just have to worry about getting Chio (our friend from Ecuador) into the United Arab Emirates when we arrive. U.S. citizens do not need a visa (or so it seems) but Ecuador citizens do! Since there is no U.A.E. embassy in Ecuador Chio will have to try to cut through the red tape when she arrives in Abu Dhabi. Again, fingers crossed.........
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