Visit These International Sites: The Pyramids
September 25, 2019. Trip Oversight “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch Top 12 Trip Pics • Pyramids of Giza • Parthenon – Athens, Greece • Meteora, Greece • Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia • West Cork, Ireland • Banks of the Seine, Paris, France • London along the […]
Last Day in Egypt
“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Go-Date: Day 70, Tuesday. April 2 Lesson Learned: Things may not be as you imagine, but things are as they are. Blocking preconceptions may be as of much value during long-term travel as is planning your next steps. We […]
Bizarre Bazaar
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for […]
City of Garbage to Memphis
“Don’t tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. …And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy […]
Alexandria to Alexandria
“I’m like a good cheese. I’m just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.” -Paul Newman Go-Date: Day 60, Saturday. March 23 Lesson Learned: Sunday is Monday in Egypt. Of course we all know, Sunday is the first day of the week in America. So it is in Egypt, but Egyptians actually start their work week, […]
Citadel, Shopping, and the Ballet at the Cairo Opera House
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet Go-Date: Day 59, Friday. March 22 Lesson Learned: Buying clothing in Cairo is very inexpensive. I don’t mean the shops or vendor stalls that cater to tourists (you won’t find toy pyramids, sphinx, and scarab beetles in these stores), I mean the […]
Egyptian Warehouse of Antiquities
“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so;…Truly, would you not for less than that go around the world?” ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days Go-Date: Day 58, Thursday. March 21 Lesson […]
Cairo and That Pyramid Stuff
“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.” ― David Norris Go-Date: Day 58, Thursday. March 21 Lesson Learned: Travel may not always be easy, but it should always be rewarding. After a Lifetime; Finally, the Pyramids The first […]
First Day in Africa – Cairo
“The Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, writes in “Travels with Herodotus” that with every new town visited, with every new foreign word learnt, the traveler experiences small, almost imperceptible personal changes. Wherever you go becomes part of you and the person who returns home is never the same as before departing. Knowing new people is in […]
Last Day in Greece – Athens
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” ― Michael Palin Go-Date: Day 56, Tuesday. March 19 Lesson Learned: Travel days suck. No way around that. Muscling your luggage into a cab, car or bus, then through check-in, […]