In my birthday card from Megan, the last line was quite cryptic: be home from work by 6:30pm on Thursday. When I arrived home (with 15 minutes to spare), she wisked me off to the airport for a surprise weekend getaway to Muscat, Oman (because she scored a great deal, of course)! Those who know…
Category: Video
A Time-Lapsed Vision of Abu Dhabi
Using more than 21,000 pictures and countless hours of editing, filmmaker Beno Saradzic created this beautiful time-lapsed video of Abu Dhabi over the past two months. It is made even more powerful by the video’s introduction which shows Abu Dhabi as a small village as little as 40 years ago…very cool stuff.
Racing for a Dream
What happens when you head 30 minutes outside of Abu Dhabi for a 20-minute zip around a Formula One race track? Living a dream, of course. Mike was one of the most recent students from the Yas Marina Circuit Driving School, spending some quality time in a real F1 race car…
Just call me Aquaman!
Following in Megan’s footsteps, I completed my PADI scuba certification over the weekend. The certification itself was broken into three parts that took a few weeks to complete….6 hours of online courses/exams….about 8 hours of hands-on learning in a pool…followed by 4 dives in the open water, which is like the final exam where all…
The Pohorylos go to Dubai
To sum up Dubai in a single post is difficult, but at least you’ll get a flavor of our adventures. The sun finally came out for good as we hit the road for an hour and fifteen minute trek to Dubai. We went up the tallest building in the world, from the largest mall in…
Hitting the Dunes
One of the traditional “touristy” yet fun things to do in the UAE is a desert safari – where you basically get taken bashing through sand dunes by a local driver on a mission to elicit screams and set up home base at a makeshift bedouin camp with food and activities such as camel riding….
Sharjaaaaaahhhh yeah!
It was time to celebrate a Christmas gift – a weekend in the Emirate of Sharjah, the third largest in the UAE and new to us. It’s right next to Dubai, so less than a few hours away, but definitely a world away from its more famous neighbor. We found out hours before leaving that…
Abu Dhabi from the Air
The CEO of Edelman Europe was in town, and I was one of four lucky colleagues who was invited to partake in a helicopter flight across the coast of Abu Dhabi. It was a cloudy day, but that didn’t dampen our spirits. Check out a few photo highlights, as well as video from our take…
Camel’s milk…yummy!
From our conversations with friends and family back home, the one topic that seems to draw the most interest about the U.A.E. is camels. Camel races, riding camels, camel markets, camels in pickup trucks….all things you don’t typically see in the States. But of all our camel stories so far, perhaps the oddest might be…