Made it to Afghanistan

I am now in Afghanistan. The mountains are beautiful, but the FOB I am at is not as aesthetically pleasing as the base in Kuwait... and it wasn't really pretty in Kuwait. I saw Erika and Chris there. That was cool to cross paths with some of my buddies from home. I'll post some pictures later if I have time. The convoy to the FOBwas interesting. I saw kids playing (one gave us the finger)we saw some men with beards who looked pleased to see us, and others who looked not so pleased. I saw a few jingle trucks and I even saw a woman in one of those blue burkas, like on TV. Doc said she was wearing high heels. I didn't notice, but he swears she was wearing high heels. The United States Military or State department need to get some civil engineers and some landscape architects here ASAP. There's a lot to do. Some of the buildings (remaining portions) that weren't just shacks made from old conexes were sort of in that brutalist style that I like so much. Paul Rudolph would aprove. I noticed a brick "factory" on the way. There was no kiln, just mud bricks drying in the sun. I would have taken pictures along the way, but they told us not to take our hands off of our weapons. We're not in Kansas any more.