Ibrahim Dik, 62, will travel from Singapore to Narita, Japan, then back to Honolulu.

"He keeps watching CNN to see if his family is OK," said his wife, Susan Dik.

Ibrahim Dik tried to contact his family while awaiting a flight out of Cyprus, however, according to Susan, he wasn't able to get through.

"I've been the one keeping in touch (with the family in Lebanon)," Susan said. "His family is holding up. They tend to be more worried about us than themselves."

Dik has family in Aouker, a town near Beirut, and in Roum, a farming town in the countryside of Lebanon. His family spends their days indoors to avoid becoming a target for the Israeli military.

"He just wants to get home," Susan Dik said. "I haven't seen him since June 24, when I left Lebanon for Singapore."

The couple arrived in Lebanon on May 26. For the past 10 years, the St. Louis Heights couple have spent their summers in Lebanon visiting Dik's family in the town he grew up in.

Susan Dik flew to Singapore to finish out a fellowship just a couple weeks before the bombing started in mid-July.