Too early to travel!

From Alex:
Starting off the week with a 4:30 AM alarm on Sunday morning to catch a flight to Kuwait is not exactly a dream start to the week. At 5 AM in the taxi, you can see the city as it takes a breather and the construction crews change shifts in the 24 hour/day building frenzy. There are few sites out there as impressive as the Burj Tower, on it's way to becoming the tallest building in the world. It is currently the second tallest and it's not even nearing completion yet!
Dubai International Airport is unique in that its geographic location makes the peak travel time from 10 PM until 8 AM. Long haul flights from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. all land and take off during those hours. The airport is controlled chaos with nearly 17 million passengers passing through it annually, making it the 10th busiest airport in the world.
Walking down the terminal, you have flights departing for some far-flung parts of the globe on airlines that aren't exactly mainstream such as Air Arabia to Afghanistan, Al Jazera Airways to Syria, Iran Air to Tehran, and PIA (Pakistan International Airlines or more widely known as Prayers in the Air) to Karachi.
This bright Sunday morning (the start of the work week here in the middle east) I'm stuck aboard Kuwait Airways for non-stop service to Kuwait City. It is one of the more unpleasant carriers out there with aircraft that have definitely seen better days. What makes this flight even more unpleasant is knowing that I'm going to a country with virtually no redeeming qualities. Kuwait is hot, flat, dry, barren country void of any geographical interest. Temperatures at this time of year reach 125 degrees, today it's 115. It is a dry heat that is comparable to standing in front of your oven with it cranked up all the way.
Just another dreaded business trip out to Kuwait for a carrier meeting. I look forward to getting back to Dubai even before I leave!