Tilley Western, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rosalyn and Troy, an Adventure Abroad

"This trip provided Troy, Helen/mom and Ros/me with many "firsts": first time in Africa, first time to Egypt, first time in a hot air baloon.  For Troy and me, add: first tour with "Adventures Abroad" and first ride on a donkey and a camel.  For me, add: first time with an injury (broken ankle).

After daily culling, Troy still came home with nearly 2700 photos.  So many beautiful, artistic, and intriguing pictures!

"Concerning Egypt I will now speak at length, because nowhere are there so many marvelous things, nor in the whole world beside are there to be see so many things of unspeakable greatness." Herodotus, Greek Historian, 500 BC

2500 years later, those words still ring true.

We travelled and crisscrossed the Nile repeatedly: by car, bus, felucca, launch, rented yacht and Nile cruiseboat.

We went to see the "grand sights", the Pyramids, Sphinx, Valley of the Kings, etc., and they were truly impressive. 

Within almost the same glance, we saw the magnificent and the appalling; the ancient and the never changing; the awe-inspiring and the awful.

Our eyes, ears, and minds were filled, to overflowing at times.

There is no point in being modest about the fact that we and you enjoy a glass of wine with dinner.   We never felt the desire more often than in Egypt and Jordan, officially "dry" countries.

So we enjoyed lots of bottled water, "fresh lemon with mint" and hot tea with mint...and Mom was glad she had brought her mickey of scotch!"