I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but here goes anyway...Egyptians are the best & worst sales people. In the last two weeks, we've gotten more touts and sales pitches here than anywhere else we've been. We do realize that here, like everywhere else, people are just trying to make a living. That said, we've probably been asked 100,000 times whether or not we'd like to buy a miniature granite replica of the sphinx or pyramid. And while a mini sphin...

The second leg our our journey around the world is upon us. And what better way to start the trip than with a baptism by fire in Cairo, Egypt. I say that because on the first leg we were fairly comfortable with our language skills (Genny especially), had a good grasp of the culture, and could get out of a hairy situation if need be. Here in Cairo, it's a completely different story. We cannot speak the language, it is both of our first times in a Muslim country an...