Day 1 - We Made it to Dubai

Travel from the USA to Dubai

We made it to Dubai 45 minutes early and have checked into the Novotel Hotel. Our trip so far has been pleasantly uneventful and all flights were on time. The Boeing 777 was great from JFK to Dubai, the seats were comfortable and we had free video games and over 100 movies to watch. Some chose to sleep, others read and a few paced around the plane.Most of the group left LAX together on Monday night and three members of our class joined us in New York (Dino, Mark and Kristen). Of those three, Dino and Mark's luggage somehow was checked all the way through to Accra, but we will catch up to the luggage tomorrow. That has been our only real hiccup along the way.

Just traveling from the airport to the Hotel was amazing. In Dubai, the tallest building in the world is under construction right down the street from us, and there are cranes and construction sites everywhere. Almost everything is written in both English and Arabic, so getting around should be easy. We're off to our first meeting with David Williams of the US Ag Trade Office.

Presiding Fellows: Benina Burroughs & Aaron Heinrich & Robert Knight

Trip writers: Robert Hodgen & Robert Harris & Simon Sihota