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Welcome to Travel With Reason: my ongoing travel musings. Photos in the gallery at left will link you to corresponding albums at Flickr; more photo links can be found below. You can email me at ronreason@gmail.com. Thanks for stopping by!
[Lagos, Nigeria] I’m typically fraught with anxiety when passing through any kind of passport control or security checkpoint in a third-world country. I’ve written earlier about the High Commission officer who eyed my temporary visa photo, taken just the night before, with great suspicion and said: “this looks terrible.” I seriously thought the photo was [...]
A trip through Dubai International Airport’s duty-free concourse (supposedly the world’s most profitable) might in itself be worth a trip here, or a layover. I almost never buy anything but it’s great fun to browse. (I love foreign stores in general, especially grocery stores – but that’s another entry). So cool to see Middle Eastern [...]
Sick and tired of the poor service on United Airlines and its international cousin, Lufthansa, I decided to jump ship to Emirates, the ever-growing Dubai-based airline. The one with the lady crew members who have great outfits reminiscent of “I Dream of Jeannie.”