First, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! I, for one, am cooked!

It’s about 6 a.m. and I’ve been up since around 4:30 due to jet lag. I crashed about 8 p.m. last night as well.

Well, last we spoke we were leaving Kyrgyzstan and headed for Italy. This was in and of itself an exhausting flight of seven hours. Hard to fly, get off the plane and speak, then fly for another three hours then speak again. Plus, Kyrgyzstan is more than five hours time difference from Western Europe which is more than seven hours difference from Texas.…

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Talking to the folks at Aviano. Most of these folks are stationed here with their families. Lots of family members in the audience. This was a very different event as it was not in the middle of an active war zone.

A week away from my kids hasn’t been easy. This cute little baby was a good sport.

Kid Rock, Robin Williams, me, Rachel Smith, Lewis Black and Ronan Tynan

Lewis and I walking the line outta Aviano.

Robin and me boarding the plane after our stop at Aviano Air Force…

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Well, we left Kabul early on Friday morning and were planning on going to Bagram but the weather was so nasty (as you can see in earlier photos and post) that we had to skip that base (sorry to the guys and gals at Bagram) and head straight to Kandahar. Kandahar is more of an international camp and base. Quite a large NATO contingent there. It made the show there different for us all since Americans made up probably only 50 percent of the audience, instead of close to 95 percent.

The other striking difference was the weather, which you…

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How we get from Kabul to Kandahar. Lewis Black, Kid Rock, Rachel Smith, “Shakes,” and Terry, our security detail. (Notice the machine gun.)

I wouldn’t mind mountain biking here in the summer …

Welcome to Kabul. Actually it shoulda said “goodbye from Kabul,” as we were on our way out …

Our “ride.” A C-130 …

This old boy was here when we first came into Afghanistan. His troop was ambushed in the mountains of southern Afghanistan and he was shot. He died three separate times on the way outta here…

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We were stuck in Tikrit, Iraq ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù home of Saddam Hussein ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù because of a sandstorm. We stayed in this house on an old Iraqi air force base ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù eight of us, including me, Kid, Robin, Lewis, Bart, Kid?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s roadie and buddy, “Shake,” and two guys traveling with Lewis and Robin. Robin and Lewis snored most of the night. Kid is catching up on his reading here ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù Ebony Magazine with Michael Jackson on the cover.

The and sunrises and sunsets here are unbelievable. Out of this world. This is a C-17 in Kuwait City. We were…

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