Saw my doctor this morning. He said I'm fine to travel to Egypt "as is." Got written prescriptions for medicines to satisfy airline and a prescription for xanax to sleep on the plane. Three weeks from right now, I should be touring the pyramids at Giza. I am ready and so excited I could burst

It's September 13...a Tuesday...a month from today I take off on a plane. Yes I am still obessing about all things Egyptian and dreaming of what this trip will be. I am in the fourth and final book of a great series of novels about ancient Egypt (actually, it's a bit of a science fiction historical novel)--a man from current time travels back to 5000 years ago and becomes Imhotep. I am learning so much about ancient Egypt by reading these books, especially ab...

Today is August 11, 2016. In two months, I will be getting on an airplane and flying to New York, and then onto Cairo, Egypt for a trip I have wanted to take since I was 9 years old. I am hoping to document my travels in this journal, and then, to maybe print it out into a nice permanent book once I'm back to the States. I also hope this is the first of many trips. After all, I have a new passport and it needs to be stamped up! In the meantime--until my trip...