Geneology Tour

I’ve spent the last couple days meandering the countryside east of Budapest, with Uncle John and his vintage Honda Accord. He prides himself on his organizational skills, and to the untrained eye you might be fooled into believing that he’s…

Ode to Cairo

It’s not like I didn’t have the time to write this past week floating around Cairo. It just dawned on me though, here in Economy Plus on KLM 554 to Amsterdam, that these last few days were simply not equal…

Egypt: Day 2

  Giza pyramids, sphinx and a bunch of old stuff… surreal. Can’t believe it. We were just watching the news a few weeks ago, dad, Sue and I in Rochester, NY, and I half-heartedly mentioned that now might be a…

Egypt: Day 1

1. My hotel room. 2. Tahrir Square, the site of all the demonstrations, looked like a war zone. 3. King Tut stuff. I snuck this one with my iPhone. 4. The Egyptian Museum. 5. Many streets are heavily fortified. This…