by thadmin | Dec 25, 2012 | Historical, Travel
Karnak has always seemed the pinnacle of tourist experience in Egypt to me; more even than touring the Pyramids. There is a fine line, it turns out, between a thoroughly pedestrian experience in Egypt and an exquisite observation of Previous Man. I thank my sister...
by thadmin | Dec 24, 2012 | Travel
It was another simple day today. We woke late and had only to wander the Luxor Souk (Market), and explore the Luxor temple complex (which we can see from the roof of our hotel. You can see it in the photo I took of Carrie photographing from between some poolside...
by thadmin | Dec 24, 2012 | Travel
Yesterday was not too much more than a 4 hour drive through scrub desert and hills between Hurghada on the coast and inland to Luxor (on the Nile). We stopped once for a break and I leapt out and made across the blacktop to some hills on the far side and scrambled up...
by thadmin | Dec 22, 2012 | Travel
As reported yesterday, we did indeed drive out to a monastery in the desert, just not the one we intended. Turns out St. Anthony’s Monastery(“Ambo Toni”) is on-the-way to St. Paul’s, and like all well-laid plans, entailed a detour to this place...
by thadmin | Dec 21, 2012 | Nature, Travel
I am not a luxury type of person, never have been. Its not that I have an aversion to comfort, its more that I feel such a pervading sense of guilt at receiving what I am not due that dours my expression. Perhaps its an earning thing. I like to know that whatever I...
