We made it!!! The trip so far has been amazing! The rides were long and I wasn't able to sleep to comfortably but we got into Cairo around 4pm. We started flying at 8am the previous day! Immigration wasn't nearly as bad as I though it would be, they didn't ask me anything. It was very confusing to figure out how to get a bus to the downtown metro station, we'd ask officials and police and they only wanted us to take taxi's. Eventually we figured out that you had...

Well the countdown continues, only 6 days now! I'm very very excited, everything I ordered online came in just in the nick of time, I've got little "stacks" all over my room of things I need to pack once I'm ready (or more or less once I finish my laundry and actually have stuff to pack ;-) Got my last hep shot yesterday so I'm all done with my immunizations and ready to go! Really at this point all I have left is packing and any last-minute things and ...

Hey Everyone! Welcome to my trip journal! Hopefully here you'll be able to keep updated on the trip to Egypt (providing I do my part and actually update it on a regular basis!) Which I really will try to do! A previous couchsurfer recommended I contact a former host of his who had been to Egypt so when I did she gave me access to her trip journal, I got to look at her pictures and thought to myself this would pry be a really good idea for those of you back home t...