OK, the Exit-Only visa is in my passport. I will leave Saturday morning. If you hear anything exciting on the news about Air France flights 217 or 28 you might want to say a little prayer.
[Homer Simpson/] Woo-Woo[/HS]
You bet. Every country I’ve lived in has been that way (Egypt, Mozambique, Indonesia), except I think it was a bit more loosey-goosey in the Federated States of Micronesia, a very long time ago.
Thailand, too. Many visas are tied to employment, and if you leave the job for any reason, you have seven days to exit the country. But it’s no problem coming right back in on, say, a tourist visa after stepping across the border at a checkpoint. (I’m on an annual visa tied to my marriage myself.)
Paul congrats on getting your exit only visa, and thanks for the update. Glad that you will be able to leave so you can come home for a month.
I am home until I get a new job. Sort of a creepy feeling.
Where you at again?
In Jeddah for another 30 hours.
Got the passport. Just a plain stamp, no neat hologram stamp or nothing. As long as it works. The movers are coming in a few minutes. All I have to do is not get arrested for the next little bit.
Think you can resist the temptation to get loaded on a fifth of Wild Turkey and walk naked down the street while carrying a “JOHN 3:16” placard and a tray of pork chops for the next day and a half? What willpower! 
keeps fingers tightly crossed
Does the Kingdom have a toll-free crime-tip hotline?
Too late. They already caught Paul "get(ting) loaded on a fifth of Wild Turkey and walk(ing) naked down the street while carrying a “JOHN 3:16” placard and a tray of pork chops.)
I am laying low until morning. Breakfast at Fudrucker’s then turn in the rental car, then sit around and wait for the plane.
He might have actually gotten away with that if he hadn’t been blowing his nose with pages from the Quran while calling the cops “filthy Jews”.
[sub]You do know that these web pages are being monitored and that two men are walking down the hall toward your room as we speak…[/sub]
They have Fuddrucker’s in Saudi Arabia?
Black market Fuddruckers, I suspect.
I’ll be hornswoggled. I wish we had one in San Jose.
There’s one right over there in Daly City.
They got SLIDERS? No way.
Yeah, Jeddah, it’s just like downtown. Only with minarets.
Another job offer came in last night at 13K SAR/month. It is nice to be wanted.