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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Yodeling all over the Kuwaiti desert
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Camp Buehring, Kuwait — We arrived Tuesday night at this lovely camp about a two-hour bus ride from Kuwait City.
It’s blistering hot and windy outside — over 100 degrees at 10 a.m. They say this is spring, though, and it only gets hotter.
This camp is a strange place: good chow (they say they had steak and lobster yesterday), a Burger King, Subway, 31 Flavors (only four currently in stock) and a PX. But there’s absolutely nothing around here for miles except sand and a vanilla sky.
The soldiers were given Wednesday off to adjust to the time change and local conditions. They’re doing lots of lounging in the tents, watching DVDs and stocking up on kitsch.
During a brief stop in Germany, someone bought a yodeling beer stein — and it’s been yodeling all over the desert. I don’t think it will last long.
The entrepreneurial locals have been hawking all sorts of Operation Iraqi Freedom memorabilia — mostly kid-sized cammo backbacks with images of Sponge Bob, Winnie the Pooh, Elmo, etc. I’m sure Muppets founder Jim Henson would be rolling in his grave if he knew about it.
As you’d expect, Curtis (Compton, AJC photographer) is fitting in quite well with his fellow Georgians.
We got a couple of high-and-tight haircuts (low-and-tight in my case) before leaving Fort Stewart.
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