Al Rasheed Hotel Baghdad
International Zone Baghdad, Iraq
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Baghdad Saturday
... there or speeding away nearby), not the artificial food and services provided by Kellogg Brown and Root, costing Americans several 100 million dollars a year (they even deliver t-shirts for the Thanksgiving Turkey Day run), and not the medium security prophylactic life style that we imposed on ourselves in the name of safety that makes this place such a loser. It’s the lack of contact with the Iraq diversity that is teeming outside ...
Baghdad October 2011
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic le.cfm?id=strange-but-true-largest-orga nism-is-fungus
It (the IZ, not the fungus) includes Saddam’s main palaces, headquarters and villas of the Baath Party, military camps, the Iraqi government ministries, and what used to be a cultural and commercial center. The Palace is still there, re-built after we bombed it to use as our headquarters, ...
Welcome to Baghdad
... by everyone from Benny Goodman to the Grateful Dead to Roadkill:
I looked over Jordan, and what did I see
Coming for to carry me home?
A band of angels coming after me,
Coming for to carry me home …
Written by Wallis Willis in 1862. It's a song about war, or the Underground Railroad or salvation, but either way, you’re looking over the Jordan River, which ...
Farewell
... ve cooked together, played together, ridden busses, trains, and rickshaws together, done yoga together, and practiced handstands together...
It's been a lovely, sweet, challenging, powerful voyage.
When we first met, David would refer to Lauren as "Beauty," and she would call him "Beast." It was truly a great characterization of the two people.
Beauty is diplomatic ...
Here at last
... the city. They took us into the "green zone" of the city which is where the political buildings are. As I write this, I am in what was one of Saddam Hussain's palaces. It is very over the top ornate. Beautiful, but very over the top! We are being treated like royalty. They had a huge breakfast ready for us when we got here. Now we are resting and taking showers (most of us for the first time in 48 hours) and will start the trip to Nasiriyah by noon.
The ...
