I go out on the road a few times a week.  Often times, I”ll bring along my camera.  Just in case there is a good photo opportunity waiting for me out there.

It’s amazing to me that the majority of Afghanistan lives their lives out in mud structures like the one pictured below. So different these people are from the place that I was raised.  I often think about my childhood and think that we were poor.  By comparison, we were wealthy.  These folks have next to nothing.  If they have two suits of clothing to wear, they are considered wealthy.  Most wear the same clothes until they are too ragged to wear.  Likewise, even those who have more than one set of clothing will wear the same clothes all week.  Alternating between outfits each Saturday.  In the cities, there are more affluent folks.  Some even on a Western scale.  After all, Agha Khan is from Afghanistan.  He is one of  the wealthiest men on the planet.

There are very few modern road systems in Afghanistan.   Most of these roads and most of this place is little different from when Alexander the Great conquered the region.  The city nearest to me was destroyed by Alexandrian forces after it rebelled.

It is exceedingly difficult to take pictures from the back of an uparmored Hummer.  Two inch thick windows that measures one foot by one foot.  But I offer these for your perusal.