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John arrives

I pick up John at the airport
For those who don't know John surf to www.baeyens.net
That's the way I learned to know him. Strange one might say, well I am quite happy about it.
Internet does work as communication thing.
That's how he became my twinbro in e-space.
And suddenly he will be here in real-time. (never saw him before...)
I doesn't feel uncomfortable, it seems very normal in a way and I don't feel nerves for this 'blind date' as Sigal calls it.
We drive the rented car to the Dead Sea and then to Eilat.
Although I told him we would visit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem etc, I changed plans and decided to show him the 'real' Arab world, and then do Israel in a quicky.
My desert adventure of not to long ago wants to be repeated. I want to convince people this worldis so interesting, I want to have people feeling the same exitement I challenged some days ago.
Desertstorm makes bad sight, but I don't care. After an early dive in the Dead Sea and a dissapointing Massada (Mum, you missed NOTHING!) we arrive in Eilat. I drive into the city, to drink something, but a trafficjam and Benidorm alike people make me take a U-turn and head for Aqaba straight away.
And then it happens to us. As we cross the border we enter a different world. I feel comfortably home. John seems to enjoy it too and my only aim of this trip, giving him an impression of the Middle-East, seems to have worked already.
More has to come.
Snorkling and desertrips. But that's another day...

Posted on May 30, 2003
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