Reading Time: 7 minutesWe woke up on Thursday morning and headed upstairs to have breakfast on the roof at our Nubian Guest House. We were served falafel, fries, pita, cheese spread, and an omelet to share. It was fine, but we will ask for two omelets tomorrow and no falafels or fries because we want… Read more

Reading Time: 11 minutesI was surprised when I went back to look at our Life’s To Do List and did not find an item related to a Nile River cruise. That just seems like something that should have been on our list. Even though it wasn’t on the list, it’s something I have thought about… Read more

Reading Time: 8 minutesAfter two years of continual travel, here is something else I think I will always appreciate and feel joy about – we are usually in locations where English is not the first language and there may be only one English word a person knows. That word is “hello.” To be walking down… Read more

Reading Time: 9 minutesI don’t think I will ever get tired of hearing the locals roam through the residential areas in which we typically live announcing their goods for sale from the back of their cart. Sometimes the carts are led by donkeys or horses, sometimes, the owner is walking the cart, sometimes the carts… Read more

Reading Time: 10 minutesWe have had another very interesting and educational week here in Cairo. We’ve now been here for a couple of weeks and we are feeling very comfortable with the areas and processes for things like traveling around the city, finding places to eat, weekly grocery shopping, just all of the normal life… Read more

Reading Time: 10 minutesWe finally are starting to feel like we are getting on the right time zone – more normal times for bed and more normal times for getting up in the morning. It’s an exciting week this week because we get to spend time in the place that drove Egypt making it on… Read more

Reading Time: 10 minutesWe are starting this year off with a trip to one of Sandy’s top ten locations in our combined top twenty. It’s a location that we are both surprised that it didn’t make my top ten given the history that we plan to learn firsthand while here. It’s the land of the… Read more