Christmas morning

As I leave Dubai for my flight over Iran to Kabul I am thinking a great deal of things. While some people, including my family, think I should be nervous for safety issues that is the furthest thing from my mind. I'm much more concerned that I'll be effective in conveying everything I made this trip for to my Afghan counterparts. This has been such a long journey already, and I'm not even there yet, but I'm finally only a few hours away!