This weekend adventure on November 21st and 22nd takes place in the Black and White Desert, and stars Andy, Wolf, Mitch, Chelsea, Casey, Trish and myself. We left Cairo at 11pm Thursday night in what is commonly known here as a minibus, but what might be called a Mormon van back home. Basically it's a big, white, 13-seater van. We drove 5 hours to where we slept from 4am-10am, which was this interesting compound at the Bahariya oasis. It's hard to describe, but I can tell you that there were a lot of mosquitoes. Our beds had mosquito netting over them and Andy, upon getting into bed, declared himself a princess. Apparently princesses have netting over their beds. When he woke up and discovered that my mosquito netting was purple, he was quite jealous. At first
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