This is one of my first posts that I made in Iraq. Also included a photo that is a reminder that now matter where or who you are, there is always a place for laughter.

You know one thing that keeps going through my head while I am on these convoys when I look over at the vacant seat on my right is "what if I could take someone for a ride along for one day". I try to take photos to give a feel for what I see on a daily basis but those photos are a glimpse at best. What you do not see it that people are for the most part happy and doing so in living conditions that most of us could not even comprehend much less live in.

Yesterday we drove through what appeared to be a wedding party because people where wearing festive colors, dancing and cheering. There where floors on cars and people had more festive clothing then the norm. They where happy with what they had and that is something that everyone us should consider when they think to complain about not being happy because you do not have the latest and greatest eletronics, cloths, and anything else.