Yes, it is a bit dangerous.
Where isn't these days?
Paris is dangerous! Hell, Houston is dangerous! :)
My wife is currently in Kuwait City, hopefully coming back home next Friday just before Halloween for the kids....she is 55 miles from Iran :)

That is what we do. Someone gotta do it. I will be happy if someone else does it. Believe me I would be happy if someone else does it for us. But there is no one, so we are doing it...
I will be lying if I say we don't like it.

This is near Tashkent, Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border.
Consider reading this book when you get a chance...

Written from a neutral perspective.
That is an amazing picture. You do look happy. On top of the world.
You're right. Life is dangerous, everywhere.
I'm getting a discounted copy of the book. From the summary (Kirkus review) looks like another chapter in the Russia/West jockeying for influence in Asia, Europe, and the world. Oil may be at the heart of this particular tug of war, but the dynamic goes back through modern history.
Just my kind of book :)
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