Phil is finally "home"

Phil has finally arrived at his new (and hopefully final) location in Afghanistan. We hope he will stay here for the rest of the deployment. He was pretty excited to have his own room, about three times the size of the closet he was in at the last location, but he thinks it may n ot last long with new troops coming in.

If you'd like his address, please click here to email me and I'll be happy to get it to you!

Phil's initial report of the location is that it's pretty. He's hoping to get some pics to me. When that happens, you can bet I'll post them here for you to see, too. It's the agricultural hub of Afghanistan, which must mean that there are plants and maybe even some water!

Phil said that he will ask around about the humanitarian assistance potential - and if it's a possibility, I'll put together some sort of information and you are welcome to participate in collecting supplies if you are interested.

Hopefully Phil will have the opportunity to write a post in the near future...until then, I'll post a few pics from a trip they took to southern Afghanistan on a day that the thermometer maxed out at 125!