Today is going to be a rough but excellent day. Breakfast and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. A 4 hour drive to an Alexandria a day there, a 4 hour drive back, and then I hop on a plane for 5 hours. And then 11. But lose 8 hours and then I get to see […]
Since floating on that king sized collection of heavenly clouds last night, I ended up and ready to go at 6 am! So after repacking everything, and closing the door on that side of my suitcase I went to hunt down breakfast! I’m now writing outside waiting for the Nubian museum to open at 9 […]
Holy crap y’all. So, every place you stay is always hyped up by guides, “this is the best hotel in India” “this is one of the best hotels in Cairo”. Guys, if I understand this correctly this may be one of the schmanciest fanciest hotels in the world (that may be an exaggeration) but it’s […]
So last night I had my last dinner aboard the Nile Lotus. Packed and repacked all my things, picked out clothes for tomorrow, paid my bill and tips and slept. Got up at four am and am now groggily traveling to Abu Semple the temple of Ramses II and his favorite wife Nefertiti. Nefertiti was […]
Technically it is high 60’s but it is the coldest high 60’s I’ve experienced. This is supposed to be the best time to visit (aside from the general Middle East stuff) due to it being winter and 90% of Egypt is desert. So I hear 70’s I’m layering but not too much. Nope. It’s windy […]
If you haven’t noticed my tense changes from present to past sometimes in the same paragraph. The issue is I write when I want/can and then come back and edit, add things, and then publish. Only if I go back again and edit/edit do they get better but mostly like I said, this is for […]
So after my lovely afternoon exploring the banks of the Nile and wandering around taking pictures, I got to do the same thing sitting up front with the driver of my carriage. We wandered around the city and revisited Luxor temple from outside and a bunch of beautiful Mosques and a Catholic Church I thought […]
It sounds horrible but I think they use dogs to keep the hotel grounds clear of “riff raff”. They had a dog sniff around our car coming into the complex last night froma K-9 unit and they scan our luggage in the hotel. But because I was up almost every two hours I kept hearing […]
So I’m exhausted. I have no idea what I was talking about with an 11 hour layover. There was no layover. I flew from MSP to Amsterdam which was 11 hours, then a 2.5 hour flight to Rome and a quick connection to Cairo for a 4.5 hour flight. I still am unsure why every […]
So I was so nervous I threw up on the plane. Twice. As someone who has spent A LOT of time on airplanes (is most of my twenties considered a lot?). This was weird. I threw up in a puke bag when we took off and also right before we landed. Didn’t eat, just drank […]
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