Mark says that I’m one of few people to get an entire year’s worth of enjoyment out of a three week vacation — months beforehand collecting guidebooks, sticking pins into maps, writing down all the information that I find; months afterward putting the website together, researching the photo notes, and wrapping up the travelogue.

Another travel site? I can’t help it. I’m compulsive, at the very least. Three weeks in Egypt with a private guide and a long list of things we had to see

Four years. Well, we intended to go someplace much sooner, but life just seems to be running at a frantic pace lately. But the travel bug is back, and we are immersed in planning our next trip – this time to Egypt

Unlike our previous trip, most of the places we want to visit in Egypt are standard ‘tourist’ sites. There is simply so much in Egypt that we want to see. In Scotland, we hired a car and drove ourselves around with no itinerary, no reservations, and no real plan. While this is entirely possible in […]

The various options to get around (note: driving yourself really shouldn’t be one of them, given that traffic rules are just, well, guidelines). Public transport, taxis, and trains.