My living quarters - me on bottom

                                                              Rest of my room

                                                      Helicopters Landing at Kandahar

                                                                     GunShip - Little sand haze

                                                          View from Kandahar

                                                              Kandahar Terminal

                                                       My bunker for rocket attacks

                                                         Mode of transportation off airport

                                                            I was testing the timer

                                                    Afghan Barbecue I attended

                                                      Lamb and Chicken Kabobs

                                                          Me with Shah's Brothers

 Site of proposed airport - Sherpatoo

 Women gathering drinking water,washing etc - not rreal clean water

 Shah wanting to be a shooter

 They just showed up from village

 My little friends - they were petrified of me - oh well do you blame them?

 Explaining to villagers of airport plans

 Ride back to Bamyan - people live in these dwellings

 Same road back to Bamyan

 Bamyan - where the Buddhas once stood - blown up by Taliban - they were thousands yr old

 Another view - people also once lived in the caves you see

 Me

Was old historic market place the Taliban also destroyed.

More Pictures 3/22/11

Nawroj (New Year) Celebration 

MI8 Russian Helo we flew in - vibrates like crazy 

Leaving Kabul Airport 

Parts of Kabul - little dust there huh 

More outskirts Kabul 

On the way to Bamyan 

Lots of little 'clans' tribal villages enroute 

Mountains duh 

Bamyan airport - gravel runway by the way surrounded by those mountains 

Airport Office 

Leaving airport to head out to site

New Pictures

 My prison cell

 Nursery outside Minister Office - send me school supplies to give to them

 Jalalabad Road - enroute to Camp Pheonix

 Jalalabad road

 How would you like to wear this all summer - women only

 View at airport from localizer antenna site

 View from airport

 view from airport - paralle to runway

More airport view

Free at Last

Good night all, morning here. After 2 days of total lockdown I am frree to move today. Lockdown means you are confined to the compound area and no other movement allowed. That definitely makes for a boring ass day. However, today we are free to move so I am heading to the airport shortly for a meeting with the ICAO rep to discuss airport issues. What do I miss you ask - well here is the list:

Perkins Cheese and onion omelets
Fresh brewed Ice Tea w extra lemon -- miss that more then anything else
Well the family is a given!
Sweets - and I don't eat sweets at home -- but crave them now -
My select comfort mattress -- ahhh a good night sleep
A shower I can bend over in
Clean fresh air
Clothes that are actually clean after I wash them - and smell clean
Ahh yes - driving my car -- not being driven everywhere

Thats it for now
Tom

Pictures of Kabul area from rooftop and my office.