Kyle is getting ready to go on his first dive in the Red Sea. It was a reef dive. He was pleasantly surprised by how well preserved the reef was and how interesting he found it. Kyle is already scheming to return to the Red Sea off the Egyptian coast.
More Random Thoughts from the Middle East August 5th 2009 Politics and religion effect everything: We quickly realized the "correct" names or borders depend on your politics in this part of the world. If we called the bordering country "Israel" we were unapologetically corrected with "Palestine." We purchased a few maps while we were traveling and noticed the political slant or ethnicity of the map maker determined the names of countries (particularly Is ... read more
