Today marks Tim’s last official day in the Foreign Service, having served 38 years with the US State Department. He was supposed to retire in January but was unable to due to serving as Acting Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs until the political nominee was confirmed by the Senate in October.

All but a year and a half of our married life has been spent in the Foreign Service, with postings to Canberra, Yokohama, Tokyo, Ankara (twice), Okinawa, Budapest, Riyadh and Washington (several times), all of which we greatly enjoyed, along with the extensive travel we were also able to do. I don’t know what the future holds, although Tim has already been asked if he’d consider returning to State on a part-time basis, but tomorrow is the start of a new phase of our lives.

I came across this drive-by shot of a mosque at sunset in Oman, a country we visited several times, from a business trip Tim made there a few years ago, and thought it was a perfect way to end this gallery of his official travels.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by PBase are decidedly
unsharp.

The Mallards, posted earlier: