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Back in the USA

Well – I have been gone… again… I am sure anyone reading this is completely shocked that I would be traveling. I am such a home-body that almost never strays away from my front stoop… Ok, that may not be exactly truthworthy. I may even be a little of the opposite.

Once again I have traveled to Iraq, but this time I was not gallivanting around the North chatting with locals and placing myself in completely safe villages that caused others to have coronaries. Nope – this time I was sent there by the company I work for. They paid for the trip and I got to have the great privilege of staying in fortified structures, traveling by armored vehicle and military air-craft. My meals were taken in gargantuan dinning facilities with hundreds of soldiers and contractors eating American food and not worrying about diarrhea. All-in-all it was a standard boring trip. Hmmm… maybe my old way of touring has caused me to not find FOBing to be a real form of foreign-service.

As I did go overseas with my company I am sorry that I am not allowed to go into more detail, and I can not show you the pictures. Not that there is a lot to see past rows and rows of concrete barriers, razor wire, dust, and debris. Not exactly the pre-2003 Baghdad. One thing about Saddam – he sure ran a clean and tight ship.

Now that I am back in the USA I will try and put some more stuff up on my blog. This may be random stream of conscience stuff – so just bare with me.

Thanks for paying attention…

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