Midnight Near the Oasis

15 May 2008

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On our upcoming Egyptian vacation, we take an overnight train to Aswan. We splurged on a sleeper car, because how cool is it to ride a sleeper car in North Africa? And we plan to join the Eight Feet High Club.

Egypt Trains Travel

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Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Astoria

Infidel Dog

This morning, with a high of seventy degrees in the forecast, amazing for a November in Chicago, I drove the dog to Warren Park. That's where we go for a special treat instead of our usual neighborhood walk, because the squirrel chasing is most excellent, and there are

14 Nov 2010

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By: William Shunn

Travel

The Curse of the Second Pyramid!

Just when you thought it was safe to come back to my blog, I'm going to start talking about Egypt again. I've been uploading more of our Flip Videos to YouTube, and here's one █████ took of me just after (as I've mentioned

17 Jun 2008

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By: William Shunn

Egypt

Photographic Wrap-Up

Finally, for a little closure, clicking this photograph will take you to a Flickr set of my choices for the best pictures from our trip. Relax, there are only 148. But if you want to see more, way more, you can sample this collection instead.

12 Jun 2008

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Cairo

A Rolling Stoic Gathers No Mosque

[I've only written 12,000 words so far about the big trip, so I suppose there's no reason not to go ahead and slap on a few more and close this out.] Our lame-duck tour company had, belatedly, offered us some options for our Cairo sightseeing

12 Jun 2008

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5 Min

By: William Shunn

Midnight Near the Oasis

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Infidel Dog

The Curse of the Second Pyramid!

Photographic Wrap-Up

A Rolling Stoic Gathers No Mosque

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