You Can't Get There From Here

Mrs. Valdysses and I will be headed to beautiful Beijing, China in 2012! Between now and then is training, training, training.... Any...

Much is made of the State Department's budget situation, especially in the current climate. Efforts at reducing waste, using funds effi...

A-100 is underway, and with it a deluge of charming, useful, and baffling information.  There are acronym lists to ingest, letter-writing te...

Alright! As of 4:30 PM yesterday, all of my possessions aside from those that fit in my car were loaded in a truck in the freezing cold, a...

So oh my gosh, the time is nigh. Packout is this Wednesday, and as much as I've read I still feel underprepared.  Maybe that owes to m...