When we returned from North Africa, DH2 asked what I wanted us to do during the one month we’d be in Melbourne before returning to California. I had wanted to go to Werribee for our dateline last December or January but my toe was too fractured to do a trip like that but after physio […]
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When I was ten years old, I did a school project on the sphinx of Giza and it has lived rent-free in my head since then. As a teen, the King Tutankhamun exhibit was in Los Angeles so it was in the newspapers (I used to read a newspaper daily until 2016) and discussed often
Thursday, February 12 An American can’t just come to Libya, you have to have a tour guide and 1 police for each person at all times. After that is arranged, then you can apply for a visa. We were greeted at the border by all three men and they made the crossing easy. The air
Monday 2/9 After leaving the cold and complicated border of Algeria, I was happy that we were inside and weirdly first in line at the Tunisia border. The immigration officer spent an inordinate amount of time looking at every page of our passports. He looked each one twice through, so the queue behind us grew quickly.
From the Sydney airport, the first leg on Turkish Airlines dropped us in Malaysia for a refuel and crew change. That first leg was 8 hours, I had the whole row to myself and no one sitting in front of or behind me. Bliss. The refueling side quest was supposed to be an hour but
