Yesterday was the birthday of one of the contractors we are working with here and my buddies Tim and Tom who are the Dell account team for this region are in town so we ventured off post last night for dinner. It was quite the experience. The restaurant was pretty nice, you totally didn't realize that you are in a 3rd world country. What was amazing though is the hotel that the sales guys are staying at. I would have never realized that they would have a hotel that nice here, of course it is stupid expensive too.
The real kicker though was the taxi ride back to the post. The three of us all packed in this tiny little Toyota that was pretty loose on the shocks for the 10ish minute ride back to the base. The cabbie was bobbing and weaving the whole way back with some crappy hip hop blasting on his speakers.... It was pretty obvious he was high out of his gourd on Khat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat)which is a drug that is in common use here on the Horn of Africa by the locals.
We got back ok and got a good night sleep after a good meal.
More to come from Camp Lemonier... OUT..
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