For Mom, Love Steve

After completing my visit of Luxor in a record time of 8 days, I felt it was time to get moving. In pretty much eight days, three and a half days with perhaps 1-3 hours of each day dedicated to visiting the sites, I spent the rest of the time doing pretty much as lazy of stuff as you can imagine. I took cold water baths, which were actually not that easy as the water tanks of the hotel on the roof, all the water is hot. I had to pre-plan and fill the tub and let the airconditioned air cool it off. Watching tv was a large part of the day where as they had one English movie a day and the same re-runs of news throughout the day. Nile TV is how would you say as not to upset anybody… Crap. Even still, I could get into my comatose state fairly easily and while the days away not blinking and drinking coke under the humm of the winter weather maker box (air conditioner). I did set my alarm every day for 9:30am so I would get up in time for my free breakfast and then scurry back to my room so I could go back to sleep. At night time occassionally I would wander along the Corniche and check out the river, but it never lasted long because it was still a bit warm and humid. Not so exciting for the non-traveling masses, but great memories were had in my little three star hotel room.
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An overview shot of Luxor, the Nile, a Cruise ship, and the West bank where I rode off into the desert for.

These are shots from the Temple of Karnak, the biggest baddest Temple of all time. Back up a post or two for a little bit more informative description.

The grand Temple of Luxor which was added to by countless rulers to show their devotion to the gods. Also a couple of snaps of Denver and Ellie plus guide. They toyed with me and said they were uber famous back home and would get tons of money for their photos. I would have known that if I would go home every once in a while. Nah, they were just cool letting me hang out with them on their tours unlike the ten thousand other tourists who wouldn’t piss on me even though I was on fire.
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I did do two full days of nothing but not much to write about there. I did finally decide that I needed to get the west side out of the way. Now, I was in kind of a ... [Continue reading this entry]

After doing some colossal site seeing, I was pooped but happy at my progress. I figured that would be my second change to my usual pattern of traveling. On the first day of arrival I would do the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Before we get to the mysteries of Luxor I want to throw a little bit more info about a couple of the places that I saw in Aswan as I noticed that I am giving Egypt a bit of a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Read all the flash stuff on Yahoo's front page including all the entertainment crap. Flick through the World News as I have traveled enough to be interested in some of it as I had been there are on my ... [Continue reading this entry]

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I'll keep it brief. After leaving Sudan, after getting off the boat and its three hour immigration hassle, I found a cheap hotel and splurged on a room with air conditioning ($4.50US). The room was basically clean, had ... [Continue reading this entry]

Okay, this one is not biological, I guess it would fall under mental, but it is a complete disaster when you are traveling in Egypt. Can't figure it out, well its called 'lack of interest'. I really ... [Continue reading this entry]

Pretty nice lead in huh. Kind of shocking. Kind of embarassing (definitely for the moms and pops and sis.) Kind of makes you wish that you didn't refer this website to friends, huh. Well folks, it's ... [Continue reading this entry]