When my best friend first floated the idea of a family trip to Dubai, I thought he was joking. “Dubai?” I’d asked, raising an eyebrow. “Do we look like we belong on postcards?” But then he showed me the itinerary. Thrillophilia, the travel platform he’d found on the

“Can you believe this view?” I asked, nudging my wife as we looked out over Dubai Marina with the city lights twinkling in the calm water.  My wife smiled and said, “It is surreal,” resting her head on my shoulder as the warm evening air wrapped around us. We had