Life Aboard A Nile River Felucca
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Exactly three years ago today, on October 6, 2005, I was enjoying life aboard a Nile River felucca. Here is an excerpt from pg. 154 of my book, Hey Boomers Dust Off Your Backpacks: Travel The World On a Limited Budget, which you can soon buy on Amazon.com and can now buy on my own blogsite www.heyboomers.com, plus see a few pictures of this.
“The group is aboard our Nile felucca, home for the next two days and nights. We are thirteen souls, plus two captains, Ikamkani and Ayoub, and that’s the perfect number for the large, square rose-print-covered mattress which fills the entire high deck of this sailboat. We recline along the sides of the vessel and there is a clear space between our extended feet, now filled with daypacks and books. Just overhead is a flowered awning and above that, a wind-filled triangular sail. Underneath our deck is a large storage space for our luggage. Reggae music is playing on the portable tape player. We are drinking hibiscus tea. Oh, this is the life.
One of our captains is cooking lunch in a small area in front of our raised platform. He has been peeling and chopping vegetables and now those are bubbling away on a two-burner propane stove. Another felucca sails close and its captain tosses a plastic bag containing a cereal, which Ayoub explains will help his stomach during fasting. Meanwhile, our vegetarian meal is beginning to smell fantastic.”
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