BLUE DRAGON TRAVELING IN THE DESERT OF BAGHDAD IRAQ

I had a lot of experiences to traveling in difference places here in Iraq, but last May 22, 2008 the best traveling that I had. Before I traveled by Airplane, Helicopter, Chinook and via convoy, but last May 22, 2008 we traveled with other Filipino and Iraqi security forces of our company. Usually if I’ve traveled by air/convoy it takes 30 minutes or one hour, but last May 22, I traveled for more than two hours in the road of the Baghdad City thru provinces of Baghdad. While we are traveling on the road we lost one of our trucks and we need to find it the location of this truck, our driver of GMC bullet proof and with other GMC decided to find it, during that time we don’t know what’s happening, we don’t we don’t what they are talking about because they talking by own their languages (Arabic). We try to ask them, what’s going on and why we need to go back on the road where we are been before. They explain to us and they said one of our trucks is missing and we need to find it. We can stop on the road and if we are heading with the traffic jam, our security force they will force to stop the all vehicle and to move and give us our way to pass as soon as possible and if they are not cooperates to us our security they will show their GUN to them and they are read to shoot them if they will try block are way. We turn around two times and because that I and the other Filipino tried talked to our security to stop our vehicle because we need pee and we can’t wait and they agreed to us but they said we need to do it fast because that place is dangerous. We stop in the middle of desert of Baghdad and I pee and they lookout us and to make it sure nobody can come over especially the local Iraqi walking by on the road. After three times turn around we found the missing truck, we laugh and we yelled “Where did you’ve been” and everybody laugh in the same time. We continue our travel and we arrived on the site safe and good. We are starving and feeling thirst and because of that I eaten the cucumber, corn beef and I drink a lot of cold water in the bottle.