Word From The Desert and Other Fun Stuff

Travis sent some pics of his first trip into town....Abu Dhabi that is....he said the first trip in to town they never got out of the vehicle...it was more of a driving lesson than a visit..then they went back on a little site seeing tour and snapped some pics of the place...Check out those cars...that's not your grandfather's Oldsmobile....there sure is an awful lot of money floating around over there....if you got it...flaunt it....

Just down the road a ways is Dubai ...the natives on that side of the world call it the "Disneyland of the Middle East".....this is the one and the same place that has the world's only indoor ski resort and it happens to be in the middle of the desert...this is also the home of the world's tallest hotel and it happens to look like sailboat in the middle of the Gulf...it is also the place where they are building a group of islands made to look like a palm tree and another group of islands that will form the shape of all the worlds continents...I hope Travis gets to visit Dubai while he's on that side of the world...I threw in some pics of these as well for your entertainment....just one of those things would be quite an amazing feat...they have them all....isn't it wonderful that they can do all that with the billions and billions of dollars from oil....what will they do when at long last one of the alternative forms of energy pans out and we and the world no longer need dead dinosaurs to run our cars and power plants....it will happen and when it does I'm sure some savvy bastards will grab that up and overcharge the world for it....but as Walter Cronkite would say.."and that's the way it is".....how true....

Book two is ready and will be available soon from my publisher...Southfarm Press...and is also available now as a pre-order from Barnes and Noble ...I hope all of you who have read book one will get to read book two..not for the money...but because I think you will enjoy this one as well...it's called Monk's War "Crossfire" and you'll find out why about half-way thru...there are more stories of war but also some good ones about R&R in Japan and my last days in Vietnam...there are 13 great stories...and the cover looks strangely familiar....thanks again to all of my fans...

til next time..

Semper Fi

Monk