Today's featured blogger is Tom Ponsonby. This posting (1/19/08) arrived close to the final leg of our travelers' trip. Just in case these sojourners don't have another opportunity to write about their adventures this weekend, these are the return arrangements: Steav, Bill B., and Tom arrive back in Charlotte this Monday/Tuesday . . . Lisa and Bill C. travel on to Morocco for an additional week before landing in North Carolina the following Tuesday (1/29). FROM...

FROM STEAV AND BILL Saturday Camel....the other red meat: tastes like a good pot roast. Our Falluca cruised into a small village south of Luxor: the end of our trip with Mustaffa and Omar after a very pleasant sail. Private van/bus to Luxor after a short, bumpy, dusty, crowded visit to a camel market . . . and a look around a village (name unknown and certainly not on anyone's "places to go" list). This is poverty at a subsistence level and shows an...