A Year In The Sandbox

The Villagio Mall
Qatar seems like it’s caught halfway between what it was and what it is becoming. It’s a Muslim country, you still see men in the white man-dresses and women covered head to toe in black abayas, but you also see ultra-modern buildings being built and a lot of people dressed like you’d see [...]

Well I finally made it to Qatar. My post about leaving on a jet plane turned out to be overly optimistic. The flight from Jalalabad to Bagram was on a tiny twin-engine Casa 212.
I had a 0400 show time at the PAX terminal in Bagram on Monday morning, so after a couple hours of sleep [...]