Live from Kuwait! We touched down a few hours ago here in Kuwait and myself, Graham Elwood and Scott Kennedy are checked in at Camp Arifjan Military Base. Not going to type long as the computers that we're using are VERY slow and there are some real heros who are waiting here to write so I will be quick. Just met a Sgt. Marzan who is seated to my right from Sacramento so he already has a standing invitation to come to The Improv when he gets back home. Both Graham and I are staying in these small rooms (not together) and it's considered a luxury for a nose picking civilian like us. How small? Think Tim Robbins cell from the movie "Shawshank Redemption." Kuwait is so baron and there are so many oil refineries with flames like torches all over the place and the entire air smells of oil.I don't think any alternative energy plans are going to be accepted over here (at least until they run out of oil). You can barely see any stars here at night and Graham said it best. Looks like Palm Desert, but with mosques. Took a few pics already. 
It's pretty hot over here (105 degrees when we landed) but I was expecting hotter. I hear that when we fly north of Kuwait it gets a lot hotter. Oh, this place is the country club of bases because there is running water although the latrine is basically a hole with a stall for privacy. Already we have had soldiers come up to us and just want to talk. Graham and I were on our way to the PX when soldier named Sims from Texas just cracked us up exaggerating his Texan accent and talking proudly about his wife and baby daughter. He was hilarious and you can tell he just wanted to have someone new to tell some stories too which is fine by us. He was funnier than I ever will be just from his stories. Okay, that's about it for now we head out to do the one show north of here and then will come back and do a show here at Arifan before being Black-Hawked-out to much smaller places where nobody gets the regular USO type of entertainment. It is now slowly sinking in that I am here in the Middle East and you really do feel a heighten aware of your surroundings. Tough to explain but you just know that this is not a real safe place in general. On the base here safe, yes, but driving here on the highway … uh, not so much. They also made sure to remind us here that if we lose the piece of paper that is our visa we are stuck, so you know I have that hidden in a secure place.....
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