Ocean Front Property

Just like the George Straight lyrics, "I've got some ocean front property...." and well, we do, but it's a farce, just like the song. Our apartment is on the 15th floor of a new, trendy building, situated right on the very busy (and very loud) Port of Baku. From our balcony, we overlook the Caspian Sea, a polluted, oily body of water. There are no waves to be had, but the water glistens in the smoggy sunlight.

If I concentrate hard enough, I can imagine a humongous bulldozer rolling in, scraping up all of the shanties that line the water, replacing them with white sand and some palm trees and then, it would almost be like Miami....almost. Really, they could have such a nice thing going here, it's just needs a little TLC.

When we lived in the USA, we always talked about how wonderful it would be to live near the water. Imagine the view! So relaxing! Smell of the salt water! Seems that I need to be more careful with what I wish for because not all water is created equally.


(Mr. Straight said it best, "From our front porch, you can see the sea.")