Maybe Ol and I have been on the road for so long that we are starting to look adventurous. That can be the only possible explanation as to why our kind B&B host suggested, and we eagerly agreed to take a “scenic detour.” Instead of following the “boring” highway, she t...

I had never really given the Indian Ocean much thought. I think that is because it is a place I never thought I’d visit. Suddenly, it became all that I could think about as I loaded the passenger seat with my maps, water bottle, binoculars, and sunscreen (yes I get sun...

It had been over three weeks since I left my phone in the airport in Amman, Jordan. Fortunately, A good samaritan found it and turned it in, but we had gone through acrobatic bureaucratic maneuvers to get it back. We had arranged for DHL to pick it up and deliver it to...

While we were traveling in the Middle East, we were heartbroken to hear about the Ethiopian Airlines crash in Addis Abbaba. This became more real, when two days later we were flying Ethiopian Airlines through Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, the headquarters for Ethiopian Airli...

It had been over a week and my iPhone was still at the airport in Amman, Jordan. Our tour of Egypt was almost complete. The Lost and Found office in Jordan said that I could come by their office to pick up the phone but that they could not ship it to me. I had no plans...

Continuing our tour with Encounters Travel, we have toured Jordan, Cairo, and the pyramids and spent a couple of days sailing the Nile on a felucca. After so many days together our little tour group of seven felt like a small family. 

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I was surprised to have slept as well as I did on the train from Cairo to Aswan. The train trip took twelve hours and we slept for the majority of it. My lost cell phone at the Jordan airport was a distant memory.

However, it had now been four days and still no word on...