UPDATE (well, just really part of an email): December 31, 2006

...I am here in Afghanistan, FINALLY! Well, it took just less than 2 months (56 days) for me to get where I was going, and what a trip it has been, no? I am constructing more updates, but it is tough when we keep traveling every other day, and my laptop battery is dead and all the voltage is 220.... Sigh. But more to come soon, so you can know where I have been and see me with a penguin, on a cargo plane, and buried under 300 lbs of baggage, all my own.
Talk to you soon, -Pat