My African Adventure

[Rick Modena]

Damn, Keith, you cant find a J.O.B. here in the states that will pay you near what your getting there? I guess I will answer my own question, you probably wouldn't be doing it if it did.


Stay safe man...

[KBScobravert]

Looks like a costco deli to me!

I ate it. Very tender. Could have been cooked a little longer. Tasted alright but needed seasoning. Tomorrow we are picking up a half a lamb to grill. I'm not so sure, I will be going back to the butcher to pick up meat again. The smell is still in my nose and it was all I could smell while eating it.

[krazy kris]

Looks like a costco deli to me!

[KBScobravert]

Damn, do the temp rules on meat really matter if the smell test passes and you cook it hot enough?

It's the first thing he did, was smell it.

Dude putting in work making us a pizza dinner.

[Mach1]

Damn, do the temp rules on meat really matter if the smell test passes and you cook it hot enough?

[KBScobravert]

Thanks for sharing!

You're welcome. But wait there's more.

I took our Labor General Foreman to the market and to see the butcher today. He just got here yesterday and is a chef, a damn good one, by trade normally. So he's agreed to help the hotel's cooks and prepare some better food.









The Butcher!!
Not a hand washed one between the 20 of them probably. You won't find a single cleaning product such as bleach, soap or even water. Meat hasn't seen anything cooler than 100 degrees F in it's entire life. It was one of those places I wished I never stepped foot into. No wonder we get sick and it is a miracle I am still alive after eating this stuff for 2 months.





He charges more for the half with the tail, I assume.

[Mach1]

Thanks for sharing!

[KBScobravert]

I clicked straight from this thread over to fox news and the main story is about ISIS beheading its own looking for spies and a picture with 4 guys dressed in the orange, be safe over there.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06...for-spies.html

A desperate act of the insane. They may be dumb but the rest are thinking "shit, ahmed, it could be our own heads next!".

[KBScobravert]

I know you are going to be on the opposite side of Africa for a while, but if work finds you near by there are some cool things you might try to see. In Tunisia is the original filming location of the Lars Moisture Farm from Star Wars you can tour. In Ethiopia there is a small monistary that tradition says houses the real Ark of the Covenant. You can't see it; only one monk is allowed to, but they have guarded it for hundreds if not a thousand years and it would be a cool place to see. Not sure you will have the time or desire for touring but if in the neighborhood it might be cool.

Thanks. All my travel in country is official business only BUT I will be able to take R&Rs 3 times a year.

[GrayStangGT]

I'm not sure the color turned out right. But this bolt of cloth is the same orange you see in all those ISIS propaganda videos. I'm not sure why it is sitting out on a table in the hotel.

I clicked straight from this thread over to fox news and the main story is about ISIS beheading its own looking for spies and a picture with 4 guys dressed in the orange, be safe over there.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/06/isis-kills-dozens-its-own-in-hunt-for-spies.html

[LANTIRN]

I know you are going to be on the opposite side of Africa for a while, but if work finds you near by there are some cool things you might try to see. In Tunisia is the original filming location of the Lars Moisture Farm from Star Wars you can tour. In Ethiopia there is a small monistary that tradition says houses the real Ark of the Covenant. You can't see it; only one monk is allowed to, but they have guarded it for hundreds if not a thousand years and it would be a cool place to see. Not sure you will have the time or desire for touring but if in the neighborhood it might be cool.

[LANTIRN]

1500 year old mosque is cool. ISIS clothes, not so much.

[KBScobravert]

If the mice get this big, the snakes are much larger. Every snake they find gets killed. So far the worst has been a 5' carpet viper on base. Oh, and no antivenom.



I'm not sure the color turned out right. But this bolt of cloth is the same orange you see in all those ISIS propaganda videos. I'm not sure why it is sitting out on a table in the hotel.



And just for Ramadan, here is a picture of the 1,500 year old mosque in Agadez.

[Whiteboy]

72 Raisins?

bomb them

[line-em-up]

Still room for a few more. I estimate 150-200. These fellas are returning from Libya for one reason or another. Either they were there to work (doubtful), to go to Europe but ran out of money (likely), or were training in the finer arts of jihad and returning to "sleep" in Niger (highly likely as reported by local drivers).

72 Raisins?