Trip: The World Part 4
There are [422] stories from my trip: The World Part 4
USA | Friday, 21 Jan 2022 | Views [180]
We passed a guy on a bench once.
He was playing a kazoo partially dressed like a clown and wore ski goggles.
It was summer.
“That would have been you,” you said, smiling.
“If you hadn’t met me.... Read more >
USA | Monday, 17 Jan 2022 | Views [152]
“WARREN’S PLACE” IS A CUTE 1926 CRAFTSMAN house in the Mule Mountains, a mile-high and 25 miles from the Mexican border. When a search for AirBnBs in Sierra Vista came up empty we found this place in the old mining town of Bisbee. The ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 15 Jan 2022 | Views [149]
TOMBSTONE—THE NAME BRINGS VISIONS of gunfights on dusty streets, saloons with wooden sidewalks, whisky and whores, Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers and a cast of seedy characters from the old West.
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USA | Friday, 14 Jan 2022 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Friday, 7 Jan 2022 | Views [299]
2022 IS GETTING OFF TO A SLOW START. Days are still 24-hours long and there are seven days in a week but we haven’t done much to fill them. The weather has been chilly with more rain than usual and, except for Connie, we’ve all been coughing ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 22 Dec 2021 | Views [289]
NIGHTS IN THE SAHARA CAN GET COLD but it hardly prepared us for the weather in Omaha. Even our arrival from Atlanta was in doubt—wind gusts topping 100 mph had been reported all day, tearing off roofs and rolling semi-trucks on the interstate. ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 16 Dec 2021 | Views [273]
MOSES’ EXODUS FROM EGYPT to the Promised Land took him forty years. We made the trip in 40-hours from Covid test in Cairo to touchdown in Omaha. Along the way Moses received the Ten Commandments. We got the message that we are not as young as we ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 15 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Saturday, 11 Dec 2021 | Views [285]
THIS SECTION OF THE SAHARA is called the Great Sand Sea. It is so imposing that Camyses, a Persian king of the 6th century BCE, had his army allegedly wiped out by a sandstorm on their march to Siwah. Undeterred, our driver Sarraj zipped our 4X4 around ... Read more >
EGYPT | Friday, 10 Dec 2021 | Views [203]
MOHASSEN IS ALREADY MAKING US CRAZY. He insists on walking us across the street like a wayward Boy Scout and thinks us incapable of buying a Diet Pepsi without his help. But most annoying, he doesn’t speak to Connie—won’t even look ... Read more >
EGYPT | Thursday, 9 Dec 2021 | Views [211]
I CAN STILL FEEL THE GRIT ON MY TEETH. I just hope my facemask is more effective with Covid bugs than with Sahara dust. We are at Siwa Shali Resort after a long, long drive from Giza with our driver Ragab and Mohassen, the guide. By unspoken agreement ... Read more >
EGYPT | Thursday, 9 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Tuesday, 7 Dec 2021 | Views [181]
THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA are the only members of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that remain. Despite the recurring tabloid stories the pyramids were not built by Aliens! According to Herodotus the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) took one hundred thousand ... Read more >
EGYPT | Monday, 6 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Saturday, 4 Dec 2021 | Views [182]
THE GREAT TEMPLE OF AMUN AT KARNAK is in a word, Amazing ! At over 200 acres it is also one of the largest. I should also note that Karnak with two “K”s has nothing to do with the Johnny Carson character, two “C” Carnac the Magnificent.... Read more >
EGYPT | Friday, 3 Dec 2021 | Views [199]
RELUCTANTLY WE MOVED OUR VIGIL from Thebes Hotel to the East Bank. Iberotel is more of a Western hotel with a great view of the Nile and within walking distance of Luxor Temple and—if you are ambitious like us—Karnak Temple. While we were ... Read more >
EGYPT | Thursday, 2 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Wednesday, 1 Dec 2021 | Views [228]
DENDERA AND ABYDOS ARE THE FIRST new sites we visited on this trip and we highly recommend them despite the inconvenience of getting there. Fahd arranged for his friend, Yosef, to drive us there on Wednesday, about 200 kilometers each way. Fahd even ... Read more >
EGYPT | Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021 | Views [248]
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DYING TO GO to the West Bank of Luxor for 3500 years. The Valley of the Kings, where the sun seems to set, is where the tombs of Egyptian royalty can be found. And Thebes Hotel is the ideal base to explore ancient sites both near and ... Read more >
EGYPT | Monday, 29 Nov 2021 | Photo Gallery
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