Okay, I have some time to kill before filling out a bunch of paperwork and then getting to work, so on the 20 yard walk to the chow hall, I got a dose of the scenery and I’m blown away. I can’t see anything of the world right around the camp, but the mountains that surround Kabul are staggeringly huge. All around, on all sides are mountains that make the Sawtooths look . . . like a dull saw I guess. I think they remind me of the Lost River Range that has Borah Peak in it. Big, rocky and still snowy.
I’ll post some pictures later, but the coolest part of the morning is the final verdict on the food. I had been told that the food was awful and that I would lose a lot of weight because of it.
Yeah, I don’t know what they were comparing to, or whether or not lunch and dinner will be complete wash outs (hopefully not in the gastrointestinal sense,) but breakfast was wicked good. Food is not awful when you can ring up a short order omelet and they bring it to your table. Now the breakfast is a classic english breakfast – with beans and fried ham and that sort of thing, but if you have a taste for it, it’s just fine. So I guess in comparison to gourmet food, it’s not so good, but for me, so far, it’s so good.
An omelet? Wicked good? Adam. This is good news!