Well I finally made it. It’s been a long 48 hours of very little sleep between Saturday morning when I left and Monday morning when I finally got to sleep. 2 flights and 3 bus rides later, I made it to the desert. We are 8 hours ahead of EST.

The base so far seems pretty nice. We are staying in a trailer right now, which beats the tents a lot of people are staying in and we are hoping to get a hard billet here in the next couple of days (ie a room). The worse part about being in these trailers is that we have community bathrooms and they are a good 500′ from our trailer which is just a tad inconvient, not to mention they are community bathrooms. Enough said. We do have wifi access, just not in our trailer, but will have it in the hard billeting, so that should really help pass the time when I have access to that from my room.

The food hasn’t been too bad either. Breakfast is the best as it’s hard to mess up waffles, pancakes and eggs. The other meals so far have been mediocre.

I’ll start flying some combat missions tomorrow hopefully and start getting into the groove of things. I’ll hopefully be doing a lot of running, working out, and if I can get Rosetta Stone, maybe start trying out another language.

I’ve thrown some pictures in of our trailer and “Tent City”.