Heading home

This is my last day here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a while. I leave here and hope that my contract is negotiated to my liking, so that I can come back to work on this project. Nothing is certain until I sign the cantract. I anticipate about a month for the date that this current contract ends (27 September). In the meantime, I am looking forward to some quality time with my family, particularly, Carolyn. I will surely miss the people that I leave behind here, but I trust that I will be back, so this will be a brief interlude. If, though, I can't return, then I will be saddened by the separation from these good folks. Oh, have I had an interesting time here. There are so many things that I have availed myself to. Diving, fishing, birding, art, line dancing, natural history, architecture, writing, parties, etc. and etc. Through these activities I have made so many really good friends. Fortunately, things like Facebook, blogging and such make these separations more manageable and tolerable.

My plane leaves out of Bahrain at 11:20 tonight and I stil have a lot of things to attend to, so goodbye for now.