Yesterday I woke up and made my way to Haifa to visit a school there, Yemin Orde.  A family friend of mine had helped with the creation of some of the facilities and they arranged for me to have a VIP visit and tour.  A taxi was sent to pick me up at the train […]

I took a taxi to the border of Egypt and Israel from Dahab.  Upon arriving, I sent my bags through a big X-ray machine and I had to empty my pockets to go through the metal detector….which was comforting considering that every metal detector I went through in Egypt was accompanied by an Egyptian dude, […]

The above picture is the wreck that I returned to Dahab to explore.  After two days of waiting for the weather to calm down on the Red Sea, we met at 11pm and took a mini bus to Sharm (a nearby dive town that is much more touristy than Dahab).  We boarded the boat, had […]

In Cairo I spent two days doing nothing but uploading photos and watching TV. I know this sounds lame, but I was pretty tired from the past week of sight seeing and I didn’t think I could jump right back into exploring the crazy streets of Cairo. The second night, Will (Paul’s roomate) invited me to […]

Trailing by about a week now on the recount of my experience I have to re-post a quote from “Into Thin Air”, one that I had previously introduced when I was taking a long time to recount the story of “Trekking in the Andes”. 
¨I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a […]

After the train station, I had some drinks at Paul’s place with some of his friends who taught at the school with him, before packing and heading back to the station.
I know that I have met a lot of people who were very friendly and helpful during my travels in Egypt, but on my 15 […]

The day before I left for Aswan I spent about four hours at the train station.  One thing that is different about the Middle East (which is also found in Chile) is that people dont wait in lines. Sure, they have to wait if there is more than one person who wants to talk to […]

 Well….after eight days in the wonderland of Dahab I am back on the road.  As always, it was sad to leave the friends I made there and there is no way to make saying goodbye easy.  A common trend in my travels has been feeling like I have known people for much longer than I […]

I have not been writing much recently because I have been very busy. For the past 3 days I have been up at about eight, I meet a group of kids that Drew had introduced me to (Drew head back to Cairo to catch a flight back to istanbul), and we all go scuba diving, […]