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Our last two days in Luxor we left our place by 6:30 AM and headed out to beat the heat. It was actually rather pleasant at that time of the morning. On our first day, we went to Valley of the Kings. You can visit three tombs with the general admission ticket. King Tut’s tomb … More Our Egypt Adventure: Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens
We arrived in Luxor early in the morning. We decided to rest a little before we headed out for the day. In hindsight, that was a mistake. It got very hot very fast and we would have had a better time had we started earlier. Live and learn. Another mistake we made – we took … More Our Egypt Adventure: Day One in Luxor
I’m going out of order for this one. Aswan was our last destination in Egypt. It was also our shortest so I thought it would be good for an afternoon post. I will split the Luxor part of the trip into two parts and publish them tomorrow and Saturday. We arrived in Aswan via private … More Our Egypt Adventure: Aswan
Rather than stay in Cairo for another day while waiting for our flight to Luxor, we hired a car and did a day trip to Alexandria. I was a little stressed about this. It was a long drive and it left us just a little time to pack before heading to the airport. It all … More Our Egypt Adventure: Alexandria
I’m going to try to finish the Egypt trip posts this week, so that means trying to fit too much into each post. We spent four days in Cairo. I wrote about day one already. Here is the rest of our time in Cairo. Day 2 Our second day in Cairo was a less active … More Our Egypt Adventure Part Two: Cairo and Giza
We are resting after a shorter day two in Cairo so I decided it was a good time to share a little bit of the experience. We arrived in Cairo at 6 am local time yesterday. Our hosts met us at the gate and got us through getting a visa and passport control without waiting … More Egypt Trip Day One
Since we are about to head out for the first post-covid conference I thought I would share my rankings of the 7 I have gone to so far. I’m sharing the Medium link because I added pictures from each location to that one. I hope Egypt ends up near the top and not competing with … More A Ranking of International Conference Locations I Have Visited With My Wife | by Alan Simpson | Medium
Amtrak announced late night fares recently I can go from BWI airport to NYC for $15 if I am willing to leave at 4 AM. I can do the same for the trip back if I’m willing to get back very late. I can do a day trip to NYC for $30 and then whatever … More The Midnight Train to Somewhere
Covid started my least favorite new Christmas tradition. My wife leaves for Kentucky at least a week before I do and I spend a week at home alone. My wife and daughter leave this morning and I am not scheduled to leave until a week from tomorrow. Home alone is not all bad. It is … More Today Begins My Home Alone/Anxiety Week
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