I'd take my chances swimming the the Gulf of Mexico than enter any of those Middle Eastern Countries....
If you go, You may want to call that GIANORMOUS of a man/coach from Knox City to be your body guard.
Muslims over there may call him KONG (or look at him as their buddha)
My sister and my niece went over to India on a mission trip a couple of years ago. They loved it. They said that it stunk like an open sewer everywhere they went, and that drinking the water would give you the scours. But they still loved it.
You might have to join a model rocketry forum to read it, but here are a couple of threads with photos of a guy who installs industrial machinery when he was in India a couple of years ago.
My sister and my niece went over to India on a mission trip a couple of years ago. They loved it. They said that it stunk like an open sewer everywhere they went, and that drinking the water would give you the scours. But they still loved it.