well crap

I had just written a beautiful post on the virtues of traveling with friends and family, and also the surprising virtues of traveling alone internationally ... and then blogger refreshed itself and erased my five thoughtfully written paragraphs. Oh well. Main point, when traveling alone, meet cool new people, have conversations I wouldn't have had with people I already know, and may lead to do doing new things, having cool new experiences. Don't worry, nothing crazy happened in Dubai. Just left the airport and found someone to discuss cinema with during the intermission of King Kong.