Jet Set

I am travelling this weekend, so this will be brief. One of the cool parts about this job is the volume of travel you get to take part in. While long flights and layovers aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, I really enjoy it. In the next 12 months, I have 5 or 6 international trips

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Starting to Feel Like Home

This week for the first time in nearly 6 months, I slept in my own bed. I moved from Texas in early April to Washington D.C. and then to Nouakchott in early July. During that time I have been sleeping on government furnished beds, which aren’t exactly as luxurious as the fancy cooling hybrid mattress

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AMA: Negatives

I am often asked through this website or through friends and family if there have been any negatives to the job, lifestyle, or in general since joining the Foreign Service. I am a positive guy by nature, and I definitely try to keep things light and positive here (mostly because I don’t want to offend

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Reflections

I was recently sitting across from a foreign ambassador at a dinner event, hearing some of the most fascinating stories of their careers, when I realized I was living in a fascinating story myself, right then and there. Later that evening, while I was replaying the night in my head, I found my mind wandering

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