Author: Mike
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Sarah Comes to Visit!!
Reading Time: 5 minutesSaturday was an exciting day as we get to greet one of our great friends from the States who is coming to visit us and explore Indonesia with us for a couple of weeks. We started the day with a workout, bananas and yogurt with blueberries, laundry, and I finished The Egyptian… Read more
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Next Stop: Jakarta, Indonesia
Reading Time: 9 minutesMonday was travel day. We checked out of the hotel at 10am, walked to the Central Station in Amsterdam, and then took the train to the airport. We arrived at the airport around 10:30 and found our check-in counters for our flights on Indigo Air, a budget airline based in Mumbai, India.… Read more
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Lemons -> Lemonade
Reading Time: 13 minutesWhen we made the decision to leave Egypt early, we chose Amsterdam as our destination for several reasons (i.e. we didn’t need a visa and there are a lot of flight options to get to our next location) and the primary reason was its proximity to our friends in Cologne, Germany. About… Read more
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An Abrupt End to Our Time in Egypt
Reading Time: 6 minutesWell, our last journal entry mentioned our excitement at checking out Alexandria. How quickly things can change. The day of our last entry was also the day that Israel and the US initiated a military operation against Iran and the serious reaction from Iran that affected the full Middle East region. Here… Read more
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Aswan and Moving to the Mediterranean Coast
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
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Let’s Cruise the Nile
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
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Next Stop: Luxor
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
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Let’s Visit Saqqara and Dahshur
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
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Islamic Cairo and Coptic Cairo
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
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The Pyramids at Giza
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