We have met an extraordinary man here named Redha. He is Kuwaiti, speaks perfect english and has a multitude of freinds. He went to college in Mich. Yesterday we had lunch at his home along with a woman from Georgia (the country, not the state) and works at the Georgian Embassy as a translator (speaks english, georgian, arabic, and russian), a German that works for the Kuwait navy, a welsh gentleman that works for the Kuwait Oil Co. After lunch we went to the m...

Greetings, Several have asked about Mr Scott. He is still at home with Rachel and is doing fine, NOW. She had to take him in for surgery the other day for kidney stones. He had several in his urethra causing a lot of pain and more in his bladder. After an overnight stay Rachel said that he came running to her to "get out of that place, and you could tell he was feeling much better". He is in good hands with her. We've reservations for anniversay dinne...

Greetings to all! We've been trying to get this out for some time but the internet is not so hot over here. We've gotten it typed only to realize that in the mean time we have lost connection. So John is typing this on word and then will copy it over (we hope!). I (John) went visiting some northern Army camps yesterday. Was that ever an experience? First offwhile going up a particular road we passed an area littered with old, rusting scraps of tanks and ambul...

Good Morning All! It's 11:30PM Thursday evening back where you are but 6:30AM Friday morning here. When I was back in the states and Jan was here we'd get very confused on how to address that difference in our greetings to each other or how we'd say when we would next talk. The sun is shining, as usual, and we can see it today. Supposed to be coler, DOWN to 95 from 100 yesterday. It's not tooo bad with the wind and it doesn't have the humidity, thank goodness...