A long short trip
This Sunday I’m headed for Egypt. I leave on Sunday, arrive on Monday, fly out Thursday morning. At the subconscious level, my brain is unsure of how to prioritize this trip. On the one hand, it’s only really four days. I generally pack for these four day work trips by grabbing the top four shirts off the “work shirts” stack, a couple pairs of underwear, and an extra pair of pants, cramming them in a backpack 15 minutes before heading to the airport. However, it’s also literally the other side of the world, on another continent (Africa!), within a short drive of one of the Wonders of the World. Thus it feels like a “big” trip, deserving of big, complex preparations. So far my preparations consist of making sure I still remember where my passport is and giving my wife my travel pants to wash the ink out of.
But anyway, getting back to the whole “Wonder of the World” business: I really want to see the Pyramids. I’ll only have free time at nights (though probably lots, with an 11 hour time difference I ought to be wide awake) so I won’t have the option of going in them, or wandering the Giza plateau. But still, they light them up at night, so I hope I can at least catch a cab out there and say I’ve seen them. (The closest I’ve ever come to a Wonder of the World are the bits of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at the British Museum.)It just dawned on me that this will be the furthest east I’ve ever traveled. Cool.
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