If you go to the beginning of Ten Days in the Sand and scan through my posts you’ll see a progression. A progression of thoughts, reflections, and actions needed to prepare for a trip to Afghanistan. The nature of this blog is to capture ideas and feelings as they materialize. It’s scattered on purpose.
To get to Afghanistan from Minneapolis I could have flown towards either coast. I chose the trans-Atlantic flight because I’ve never crossed the Pacific; I think crossing the Pacific would mess with my sense of time more than crossing the Atlantic does. Because I could have gone east or west I’m pretty sure Afghanistan is just about as far away from Minnesota as I can get. For you Cliff Clavin fans out there, according to a cool ‘tunneling tool’ found on-line, Minnesota’s opposite point on the the globe, or antipodal, is in the middle of…
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