So yeah, I am an adventurer at heart and I love my job. The people I work with tho are a little backstabby sometimes and judgemental as a rule. People who work under me think I’m crazy but a pretty chill guy (I can live with that). So if you never see my face or learn my name, I need a veneer of anonymity to prevent personal hardship at work-but not so much that I’m hiding anything illegal. If you happen to learn my name or we meet in person, I ask you to please refrain from dispersing that information as a courtesy. My whole life, I have never set foot outside the continental United States. But through a series of unfortunate events that resulted in broken/mended ties with family marriage/divorce, depression/recovery, weight loss/gain/loss (healthy this time)- I am now writing this blog from the Kingdom of Qatar. I have not had much time to travel throughout the country as I am here more or less on business, but I have been to Doha a few occasions. The Villagio Mall is stunning, the architecture of “The Pearl” is fantastic, and the Souks with surrounding stores filled with items of questionable origin have all been memorable. Two things stand out most of all-their pizza is good, their local cuisine does not give you explosive diarrhoea-nor discomfort of any kind, other than you sleep great right afterwards; but I have noticed a striking lack of book stores. Jafirs “its not just a book store” gets a bi-they had an english section and it is unfair of me to judge their selection when I don’t read arabic  and I happen to be in an arabic country-but including the Virgin superstore book section there are only two places in the city of Doha I know of to pick up books. Those are my two prejudices: Pizza and book stores. Grade A on the first and the jury’s still out on the second. Now imagine just walking across the street during full traffic, crazy right?-totally normal, apparently you only wait when the cars are moving the fastest. But the one thing I have seen here that I would take with me when I leave if I could only take one thing is this- McDonalds delivery by dirt-bike HO-LY-SHIT! I thought they were just rumours but nope-that’s legit. Also the cigar shop in the Pearl sells Cubans, my very first cigars were a Hoyo De Monterrey, a Cohiba, & a Bolivar. Every now and then we drive by what you could call a ranch that has Camels, either they are a very dark brown Camel or somehow the light just hits them the wrong way. A few months ago a fuel tanker truck exploded, everyone thought it was a terrorist-just a spark and boom. The poor driver was the only one who died, but the road is still melted from the fire. The craziest thing isn’t that there are terrorist organizations operating in Qatar, technically-they are allowed to do logistics here, but if they cause trouble all bets are off (google that one). Overall I am glad I came, and I cannot wait for the next country. Last bit: hookahs are awesome