A Traveler in the Foreign Service: Ding Dongs and danger pay in Kosovo

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Dave, reading your posts with something of a semi-nostalgic, semi-FS brat smile since my step-father was a FSO in the 60-80s. That whole calculation about where to stop on a road trip in Europe that would have an American base and a PX and commissary is a major part of my teen memories, but I guess nowadays much less a possibility with the reduction of US forces since the Clinton era. I was wondering, if you've blogged at all - if not as a main blog topic, at least in passing - on the question of how living and working in a career abroad is different from the visiting traveler experience as far as how it allows you or doesn't allow you to write? Just asking, because I have another relative who joined the FS in more recent years - just as a staff specialist - and discovered that the ideal of "work abroad and write as well" wasn't such an easy balance after all. Meanwhile, I wish you well, and a different fate from her.

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