Recently I had a bit of time off between jobs (long story) so decided to visit the US and see some family. To be honest, the whole flying after COVID thing did not thrill me, and the preflights paper work and proof of vaccinations and etc were a bit of a palaver. Of course just as we were thinking of booking we also discovered the Mrs KW's passport had less than six months in it. And with her consultants and embassies here all had 4 month waitlists just to get appointments to apply for a new passport, let alone how long it took to obtain the ruddy things. This necessitated a couple of trips home for MrsKW to get a new passport made up, and then a visit to the American embassy for visa. Both of which were fairly painless.
Then, armed with passports, vaccination certificates, COVID free certificates, hotel bookings, flight bookings, et al. (I ended up with a massive folder of paperwork) we embarked on a trip via Doha.
First plane I had boarded for many a year.
I even nicked a spoon for Mendy, but turns out he already has one from Qatar and doesn't want it.
Damn, it's a long way.
Our first sight of land...
But it's not all that interesting...