As I peered out the window as we came in for landing, all I kept thinking was …I’m so thirsty. I had been in deserts before, in India and the US, but this was different. As far as I could see was arid, dry, flat land. Not a speck of green in sight. This feeling of the alien was enhanced when our taxi driver drove us through a landscape that was identical to those you constantly see on the news.
