Category: Overseas Adventure Travels
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Luxor – Karnak, The Winter Palace & our Home Hosted Dinner
Well, after what can only be described as a RUDE 3:45am meeting time, we headed to the airport for a very early flight from Cairo to Luxor. I don’t think I was smiling…despite the sign. I needed coffee! While it was very pleasant when we landed, the forecast for today was looking toasty! With that…
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Giza Plateau, The Sphinx, and More Local Food
After a fairly early night…easy to do after a few of those apple cocktails! We were up and ready to go for today’s adventure, and boy is it a big one! The Giza Plateau! This is, of course why we all come to Egypt. The pyramids, the Sphinx, how often do you actually get to…
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The Cairo Museum, Local lunch, & our Welcome Dinner
In the morning, we wandered over to the included (for us) hotel breakfast buffet. There were plenty of options for all tastes and since all I really require in the mornings is coffee, I was suitably fortified in no time. Once we all gathered at the required meeting place, we loaded onto our bus and…
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Arriving In Cairo…The first Time
After a VERY early bus trip from Petra back to the airport at Amman, we were all checked in and ready for our flight to Cairo. Fortunately, the airport had us Westerners covered. After an uneventful flight and an interesting trip through Customs & Immigration in Egypt, we were on our way to the Cairo…
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Filling the Bucket List – The Road to Petra
After our wonderful home hosted dinner, we were up early and loaded on to our bus. We did have to make one quick stop on the way out of town…back at the home we had visited last night. Why? Well because my mother left her glasses there! Yep, it was her. Actually this wouldn’t be…
Soccer Mom Travels 