The neatest it cleanest press corps I have ever seen. Most of the reporters/photogs I know are pretty disheveled, or maybe that was just me. Been trying to find out what kind of detergent the Omanis use on their whites. The graduation was aired on national TV. I had to refrain from joining them on the stage with my iPhone camera.

The neatest it cleanest press corps I have ever seen. Most of the reporters/photogs I know are pretty disheveled, or maybe that was just me. Been trying to find out what kind of detergent the Omanis use on their whites. The graduation was aired on national TV. I had to refrain from joining them on the stage with my iPhone camera.

This is where the ex-pats and vacationing oil riggers hang out.

Lunch! Enough said.

I've always wanted a cake that had 2 inches of icing atop a 1/4 inch lesser stuff. Who would have thunk that I'd find the cake of my dreams in Oman?

Trent throws caution to the wind as he vies for the best footage possible. I know he knows Grace's Rule No. 1 - Get the story. I only hope that he remembers Rule No. 2 - Protect the equipment.

Trent throws caution to the wind as he vies for the best footage possible. I know he knows Grace's Rule No. 1 - Get the story. I only hope that he remembers Rule No. 2 - Protect the equipment.

In this video, I've known Trent Hilborn and Mark Mazur for all of 20 minutes. I felt they were ready for Grace's Rules of Good Journalism. While I used my time in the car in a productive way, Shawn McAfee, who was in the car ahead of us, decided to channel her inner Bond. She tried to lose me in the untamed West (of Oshkosh). She did this knowing that I didn't have any food in the car. Could have been ugly.