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We’ve arrived.

Not the Oregon Coast.

We knew we had arrived in Salalah when the sky turned misty, mountains arose, and the brown became green.


photo by Sarah

photo by Sarah

Our first point of interest was finding the blowholes in Mughsayl (sorry, no wiki). Imagine my delight when I looked out over the rocks and saw a scene akin to the Oregon Coast. The weather wasn’t too far off either: overcast, misty, and windy. Sounds like home.


photo by Sarah

The blowholes held our attention for quite some time. You never know just when the water will go blasting. Their unpredictable nature made it tricky to get photos at their full height. (The grown men playing in the water made it difficult as well.)

Seeing the giant waves crash on the rocks made me love Oman even more. This country has so many surprises. I had no idea.

photo by Sarah

xo, jill

[Note: Oregon does have lovely beach weather too, you just never know when you’ll find it.]

The journey

Long and flat.The drive to Salalah began with an overnight stop in Nizwa. Nizwa is about a 4 hour drive from Abu Dhabi. A slow border crossing made it quite a bit longer for us.

photo by Sarah
photo by Sarah

We stayed in a nice local hotel for the night before gearing up for the 8 hour drive to Salalah. The drive itself is memorable for being unmemorable.

photo by Sarah

Check out this video Sarah made and see for yourself:

Hard to believe it’s green at the end, isn’t it?

xo, jill

The Fourth of July

is exploding… all around, yeah!*

Happy Independence Day, Americans!
(and Filipinos)

xo, jill

*from The Pale’s “100f Gang”

Instant Salalah

Oman at its finest.

This past long weekend Sarah, Skylar, and I headed out on a road trip to southern Oman. We wanted to check out the much talked about areas surrounding Salalah. Salalah sits on the water near (but not too near) the Yemen border.

The special thing about Salalah is that it experiences a monsoon season. The influx of water changes the landscape to…green! A beautiful color that we don’t see too much of around here. During the summer months the Khareef Festival (Khareef = monsoon in Arabic) is on and visitors arrive from all over.

The promise of green made the lengthy drive there (14 hours) completely worth it.

Here are a few shots from my instax camera:

More green to come!

xo, jill

Happy Canada Day / Bonne Fete du Canada

Keepin’ it bilingual.

It only took moving to the other side of the world for me to make friends with Canadians. Living just a short distance from the US/Canadian border for 5 years didn’t seem to do the trick. Turns out, they really are super nice and don’t wear denim on denim as you might expect.

To my favorite Canadians: Happy Canada Day!

And to my non-Canadian friends: Let’s learn a bit.

xo, jill

The feeling is mutual.

Understatement.


Thanks, Nikki!

I miss you too, Washington! (And Oregon!)

Two weeks!

xo, jill

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