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
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
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.
[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
We knew that Friday, May 30, as another long travel day, was going to suck. We just didn't know yet how badly it was going to suck. Over dinner the evening before, Ra'ed had broken the news to us that there would be yet another change
[Now that we've been back for more than a week, maybe I should get cracking on these last few trip updates.] Wednesday, May 28, was another travel day, though we did get to enjoy another fine hotel buffet for breakfast and some more relaxation on the Dahab shore
[Writing in Cairo hotel room, hoping to stay up all night in preparation for sleeping through our 7:35 am flight to Paris.] According to the original plan, we shouldn't have been on that overnight train back to Cairo at all. This was the first leg of our
[Writing in our hotel room back in Cairo again. I have an internet connection, but can't seem to reach the mail relay server that will let me send email.] After about four hours on the train Sunday evening, we reached Luxor. It was not exactly a comfortable train
No time for a long post, but █████ and I are having an utterly relaxing day in Dahab, which is on the Sinai Peninsula, on the shore of the Red Sea. Our hotel is amazingly beautiful, and the water of the Red Sea is the most amazing blue I have ever
Not to say that we're relaxing. We've been to a hell of a lot of different sites today. But Luxor has been a most pleasant surprise, and we've had a terrific time here. First, my apologies for that flurry of posts. I've
[Written Sunday afternoon in the Sara Hotel, Aswan.] We awoke at 2:45 am today. Well, I awoke earlier to deal with the unsavory consequences of our delicious meal at Makka. Sorry, Ali! I promise my heart will never stray again! The reason for the early hour was to meet
[Written Sunday afternoon in the Sara Hotel, Aswan.] Saturday morning we slept in. Conveniently, our train had had some engine trouble during the night, so we wouldn't be reaching Aswan in the south of Egypt until after 11:00 am, which put us over two hours behind schedule.
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