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back in Cairoback in Cairo Everyone has been asking me if things feel or look any different here in Cairo after the revolution.  When I left, there were tanks in my neighborhood, a curfew, lots of gunfire, there was no internet, and Mubarak was still president.  Now, Mubarak is gone, the police are back on the streets, the tanks have rolled out,...

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from ancient to medieval in Cairofrom ancient to medieval in Cairo On Tuesday we started our day with a cab ride to Tahrir to see the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. We spent a few hours enjoying the Tutahnkamun exhibit, Akhenaten collection, and other ancient art and artifacts of Egypt. We then took a taxi to the Citadel. The views of the city were stunning. We...

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weddles in luxorweddles in luxor This past week has been a whirlwind!  After seeing some sights around Cairo with Ryan, my parents arrived and we left for Luxor.  We arrived in Luxor around midday and decided to check out Luxor Temple in the afternoon sunlight.  It was incredible.  The city of Luxor creeps right up to the edges of these ancient sites,...

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Mount SinaiMount Sinai Last weekend we went on a faculty trip to Mount Sinai.  After a 9 hour bus ride through barren, empty, desert, along the eastern coast of Egypt and across the Sinai Peninsula, we made it to Dahab where the best thing about our hotel was the coral reef meters from our room.  Another 2 hour bus ride through a forbidding...

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Unfinished ObeliskUnfinished Obelisk Once we got to Aswan and after a crazy taxi experience that entailed some serious driver rivalry, keys stolen from the ignition, a chase involving a tire iron, and a group of tourists, ahem, us, quietly unloading our luggage and finding another cab... (yeah, I know, OH EGYPT!) Anyhow once we got to Aswan, we decided...

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Oregon to Kansas

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Category : in America and Elsewhere, Travel & Sightseeing

Southeastern Oregon looks nothing like the Portland-area Oregon I know.  It is really beautiful.  Flat and arid with scrubby little bushes and no trees whatsoever, it reminded me more of New Mexico than Oregon, but I loved it.

We camped at Crystal Crane Hot Springs, but I’m a little hydrophobic so we didn’t actually swim in the spring.  Instead, we pitched our tent and made some dinner.  It got dark pretty fast, and I have never seen so many stars in my life.  We could see the Milky Way, and lots of brilliant shooting stars.  As I was laying there in my sleeping bag trying to fall asleep we could hear rustling outside near our tent.  We could also hear the yipping and howling of coyotes growing louder.

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reporting from cairo

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Category : My Life in Cairo

Hi everyone!  I know it has been quite a while since I last posted.  So much has happened.  Brandon and I went on a road trip, drove through Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and Kansas to get to Oklahoma where we spent a few days with my grandmother, got to visit with my cousins, and had an all around wonderful time!  We then continued on the road, back through Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Idaho until we made it back to Oregon where we spent a few more days with Brandon’s parents, made a quick visit to see my sister and brother-in-law, and somehow managed to get ourselves packed up and ready for another year in Cairo.

And while this was definitely a summer to remember… great times with family and friends, a memorable road trip, my first camping experience, discovering my profound fear of bears, and about 1,500 photos of mostly the road… the semester begins in a few days and I am already looking forward to the year ahead.

Over the next few days however, I’ll be posting some of the photos from the last month.  And, as you have probably already noticed, the blog got a full makeover.  I hope it worked!

P.S. You’ll have to bear with me… most of the photos from the past didn’t seem to take the transition too well and are pretty stretched and skewed.  I’ll fix them sometime soon.

out in the wind above the clouds out in the weather

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Category : in America and Elsewhere, Travel & Sightseeing

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