Visit These International Sites: Luxor, Egypt
October 23, 2019. Trip Oversight “I gave up drinking once — it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.” -Humphrey Bogart Top 12 Trip Picks • Pyramids of Giza • Parthenon – Athens, Greece • Meteora, Greece (Kalabaka) • Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia • West Cork, Ireland • Banks of the Seine, Paris, […]
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 […]
Temple of Karnak
“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” – Albert Einstein Lesson Learned: Now that we have gone over to the East side of the Nile River we can’t be happier that we chose to stay on the West Bank. Luxor City is dense along the river. It has no people […]
Luxor Temple
“We are all migrants through time.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West Go-Date: Day 68, Sunday. March 31 The Past Still Lives Luxor Temple is a large Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in Luxor. This is the largest part of the city of Luxor (population and development), and where […]
Valley of the Kings and Queens
“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” -Al Gore Go-Date: Day 67, Saturday. March 30 Lesson Learned: Back up your web site on a regular basis. Things do go wrong, and they have. I’ve been down for two days, but we may be back to normal. Desert Condos for […]
Luxor – This Sure Ain’t Vegas
“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry Go-Date: Day 65, Wednesday. March 28 Lesson Learned: Do Cairo, see what you […]
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, […]