A Very Secretive Posting

November 2016

Medellin

Being that it is my last hitch with TAQA and I need to train my replacement I was only out for two weeks.  A week of jet lag and a week of relaxing and seeing more of Medellin. My buddy John B**d** was down from ^^^^^ and we spent some time seeing some of the sights which was great as I am too fecking lazy to do it otherwise.

He went on a walking tour first but I has some illegal stuff to take care of. Together we went on a fruit tour which was great. Colombia has over 400 different types of fruit over 400 different  types of noises to keep you awake at night. We also went to the Museum of Modern Art, Parque LLeras, Son Havana (for extremely hot and sexy salsa dancing but not with each other), exploring the local metro,  Botanical Gardens, local food, and we did a bunch of other cool shit that I can’t detail because I am tired and my neck hurts. But we did play of lot of hockey on Xbox. Hanging out with Dave and Sarah was also great but Dave is all grown up now and had a lot of work to do before his amazing trip to Antarctica. Sara's Spanish is not very good so I spent a lot of time tutoring her as well. 

Jimmy B**D** will also continue on with his adventure as now I am back to work in Iraq for the last time.  There is a change of plans regarding travel. I was planning on going to Erbil to Vietnam to start my gap year but I need to go back to Nicaragua and Colombia for various reasons and I will start my travel from there. However before I arrive back in Central and South America I plan to see Oman and another place that I can’t mention in a public form just in case I go back to work in the Middle East. Yeah, figure that out secret police. 

Random Picture of Random Church

Cable Car in Medellin

JFK

John Foster Dulles in Metro

The Fruit Lady

Thoughts Arrive

This is me exposing my soul

Oh I love the night live, I like to boogie...

This is my favorite fruit in all the land just in case someone will ask you

Feck, we drank til 6 in the morning 

Dubai Airport

Dubai from the air

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Plants for sale

Fruit that I did not like

getting ready to make local bread

Fruit

More fruit

Not sure why I even took the picture

Cook Menu

Herb Garden

Feck sakes, this would imply this dude is in my soul. 

How I view relationships 

Can't touch this

No internal will reward us now for wasting the dawn

My secret local family 

Fruit again

You can blame this 

Locals watching you guessed it, Soccer

Not fruit

Is this Fruit

Market

More Market 

View Medellin

Nov even crowded 

Scar Tissue 

Pharmacy 

I always wanted a dog

Alone with my thoughts 

Pretty much how my body works

As I seen my future

MJ

A great band 

He smashed his thumb

I was scared to death of this fecking thing

View from my bedroom 

Xmas in Colombia with all of the folks back home

The Semi Autonomous Region of Kurdistan.

Iraq

October / November 2016

Awat Yasin will be quick to point out that I don’t work in Iraq but in Kurdistan but was we all know Awat is fervent Kurdish national and possibly a...

I started the hitch in Abu Dhabi but went into Iraq to do some work but then I found out that January will be my last hitch so I working out of Iraq to train my replacement.  I am out for two weeks and then back for a little less than 8 and that will be it. Even before the price of oil tanked again I was not planning on trying to find another job right away. I am taking my GAP year, albeit 34 years late.

I am planning on starting in Vietnam and then going from there.  I will worry about work in a year or two and if not to paraphrase William Lyon MacKenzie King – RETIREMENT IF NECESSARY BUT NOT NECESSARILY RETIREMENT.

I am tired damn it and wants some time off.

Working in Iraq is pretty normal considering we are only 80kms from Mosul but the Kurds are tough and resilient (they have to be) and life goes on. The Peshmerga are brave, selfless, fearless and keep Erbil safe from those Daesh fuckers.

I am currently in the Frankfurt Airport  killing and wasting time until my next flight. 4 hours to kill here and then the long flight to Bogota and the Medellin. Only out for two weeks but being that it is my last hitch I don’t mind. My buddy Jack is coming down and Dave and Sara will be there so it should be fun.

I also have a lot of stuff to get done being that I may not be back for a year or two.

Onward,