So today we are going to Camp Eggers to interview Texas soldiers. You’ll be happy to know the company transporting us everywhere are equipped with an armored SUV, two security guys and loaded M16’s as they take us all over town. They also gave us bullet proof vests. So, we are much safer than others. In fact, our vehicle is so armored, a roadside bomb would take off its tires but would be less likely to harm the people inside. On a side note, the pollution is so bad, it is worse than Southern California on a bad day! There are beautiful mountains that you can barely see because of all the dust and pollution. I already feel like I have miner’s lung and spent half the night up coughing my guts out. I also had horrible nightmares last night about people trying to attack us. I think they were spurred on by being awoken in my sleep when a man barged into the room saying “room service!” I wonder why kind of service he was delivering…bomb with a side of grenades? I shooed him out and then double bolted the door…
Our hotel is a beautiful prison. There are lush gardens inside, a beautiful gym and then out the windows armed guards and 2 lines of security.  I feel like Marie Antoniette during the French Revolution..in our gilded palace while the starving and poor wage war outside. I just hope I don’t meet her same fate.