Home Sweet Home

I landed at Washington-Dulles Airport on schedule Saturday afternoon, 17 hours after leaving Baku.  I breezed through Immigration, the baggage carousel, Customs, went through the arrivals door, and found Roberta waiting with the car at the curb with a rose!  The police on patrol, eventually, told us to move on, and we drove to Reagan National where Chelsea’s flight from Denver arrived minutes later.  It was a wonderful reunion, more so when we arrived home and saw the Welcome Back! sign Vanessa drew.  We had a wonderful home cooked dinner which included a fresh, hand-delivered Azerbaijan pomegranate.

Thanks to all of you who frequented The View from Baku over the past several months.  Your interest and comments reassured me that I was not alone on this project.  This probably will be the last post for a while, although developments in Azerbaijan might necessitate periodic updates.   Meanwhile, the first ADA Majlis aired November 15 across Azerbaijan and into Iran, Turkey, Georgia, Russian and parts of Europe.  It now can be viewed at http://majlis.ada.edu.az.  Click below for some of the sights and sounds of the making of the first Majlis at the historic Ismailiyya building in the center of Baku.

The best to all my friends here in the US, in Azerbaijan, and to everyone in between who dropped in from time to time.