Friday Update

The flight from MANAS Air Station in Kyrgyzstan to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan took a few hours, but we had a whole C-17 to ourselves. Wow. What an experience. I even got to be in the cockpit for the takeoff - what a thrill!

Our barracks at Bagram are great! Internet, big screen TV, refridgerator, 5 pairs of bunkbeds, and posters of all the previous entertainers who have stayed here.

The trip to Camp Salerno on Thursday brought a few problems and we were stranded there until late this morning. You can read about the particular problem on Matt's blog at mattposs.com. The trip to Salerno was on a Chinook troop transport helicopter. Now THAT was cool!

The show we did at Salerno was pretty good, despite the fact that not many soldiers showed up. Those people work hard all day long, in 90+ degree heat from dawn to dusk, so I'm sure they were tired and didn't feel like being there. Or, maybe they were listening. I'm sure you could hear us from all over the camp.

We flew back to Bagram today on a small cargo plane, where we could each sit at a window seat, and we got great views of the countryside.

No more gigs today, so we're chilling out. A little later we're going to go hang out with some Air Force boys on the Flight Line, and get close up and personal with the A-10 warthog. Then the Army boys are hosting a 'surf n turf' party. Steaks and lobster, baby.

We'll continue gigging tomorrow. No word yet on whether Camp Phoenix will be on our schedule, but we hope it is.

~mac