Kuwait

Greetings from the lovely Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. After more than 30 hours of travel, including two intercontinental flights, a couple bus rides, and some quality time on the Kuwaiti highways, I arrived here last night.

As you can tell, I've got internet access. The wireless works even in the open bay that I'm staying in. The bay is actually pretty nice. The mattress is old and soft, but other than that it's not bad. It's not crowded, so most of the bunks around me are unoccupied. I've got a wall locker, plus they have a bunch of "cages" in the middle of the room that you can lock stuff in. One of them was open, so I put all my extra stuff in there.

We didn't get back here until about 0130 Kuwait time. I unpacked as much as I could in the dark and without waking anyone, then took a shower and tried to sleep. It was hard at first, at the end of such a bizarre 30-hour travel day, and I probably only got about 3 hours total before people started being noisy around 0700. But I went back to sleep for another 90 minutes after that and then decided to start my day so that I'll be in sync with the time zone. The NCOs are going to come get me after lunch, so I spent the morning surveying the surrounding buildings. The PX is not too far, which is a good thing because even at 0900, it was almost 100 degrees and pretty windy. Apparently they've been having a lot of dust storms.

I bought hangers, Febreeze, and laundry detergent at the PX. There is a laundry room right next to the bay. The showers and stuff is also right next door. There are a couple big TV rooms, and I watched some soccer on the (several!) European sports channels we get here. Hopefully I'll have time to catch more of Euro 2008 while I'm here.

So that's my first morning in Kuwait. More to follow!