Subtle Signs We're Not in Afghanistan

Top is one of the airport bar/restaurants in Dubai.  As a general rule, you don't find a high number of bars when you visit sites in Afghanistan.  We stayed in this particular one about six hours, since we had a fair amount of time to kill between flights.

The second photo is from the hotel lobby in Mauritius.  As a general rule, you don't find large numbers of paintings of voluptuous women as you travel about Afghanistan.  It's this sort of extraordinary attention to detail that lets me be such a talented diplomat, or spy, or Fuller brush salesman, or whatever the heck it is that I'm supposedly doing when I'm not lounging on the beach here.