Gina in Front of the Cleansing Fountain

Less Than We Bargained For

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June 9th 2007
The train rumbled to a stop just as the sun started cresting the desert horizon - it was 5 A.M. Gina and I were finishing our last bites of the stale croissants provided as breakfast on the sleeper train from Luxor as the engineer yelled out, “Ramses, Cairo.” Struggling to fight the remnants of the Ambien flowing in our bloodstream, we did our best wobble down the stairs and onto the waiting ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more