||10 09 09||
For weeks now, I have not been seen by the local public. For weeks, I have not written in this journal. But there has been reason.
I have been out among the desert tribes! Oh how interesting a lot, or clan, or group of peoples! I cannot, as yet, decide upon a fitting description for such.
All I know is that, for the first time in near a year, I was not cold.
The sun blazes for them almost as hot as my homeland's. Their women are graceful and strong, the men are zealous and boastful but all the stronger than those of my homeland.
I departed them sad that I had to leave, but knowing that I will return again in the next few months. For now, I return home with a mountain of information...and a smile.