Last night in Beirut. Been a busy week – they always are – but busy with trainings rather than with photos, which is my usual work when I’m on the road. So, bit of a different twist for me on this pass through. No matter how much I travel, it still always sort of amazes me to pass back through the same place you’ve already traveled. In fact, I’m two doors down from the room I stayed in Beirut’s Ashrifiyeh neighborhood during the summer of 2006. Then, Israeli jets were bombing the southern suburbs of the city – which I could watch from the balcony of the office nearby, and which I could certainly hear from my own room. Last night someone set off some big fireworks from that part of town, and for a second I was instantly back there. So strange to me how small the world can be when you move around in it as often as I do.
On a bit of a whitewater tour at the moment – caught up in the rapids as it were. Back to the US tomorrow for two days, then off to Europe for a couple weeks, then back for two weeks and off for what is shaping up to be a long Africa trip. Spring and summer always seem so busy. But life is good – beats a desk job.
May 25th, 2009 | by David in Travel
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