made it to the beach

It’s wonderfully quiet here. I’ve only been here an hour and I’m already more relaxed. Got a meal, got my room, a shower, etc, etc. Internets is spotty and costly here. We’ll see if they change the password on me or what. Might just be incommunicado for a few days. Put the “get away” in get away from it all.

Meantime, bus rides are boring, except when there are pretty things to photograph out the windows. I can’t complain. The Sinai is pretty rad looking. Erm… yeah. not a lot to say. Photos! Yeah! Look:

Nile sunset

So today I did a bad thing. I had dinner at Pizza Hut. But! I timed it so I would be right by the Nile, so I could see the sunset over the world’s longest river, and take some pictures. Here:

Definitely worth it.

Cairo: Life in the street

yeah, I know, more street pictures. I could do this all month, if I weren’t sick of Cairo. Really, really tired. noise. Cars. Crossing the road. No food in the day, because of Ramadan. A week at the beach is just what the doctor ordered. Yeah:

Also, sunset pictures coming soon. Over the freakin’ nile.

cairo traffic

seriously, the traffic here is something else. It’s a big part of what I’ll take away from here. I’ll have dreams of the sound of horns and weaving through crowds of pedestrians. Also, crossing the street here is a bitch and a half. The cars in that first picture? Stopped. Then they move a few feet, then they stop again.

If I were a fruit-lover I’d be set:

Hipshot foot-traffic.

Up next, though, we have the antithesis of this: at 7AM, the streets are empty and the light is wonderful. I’m getting ready to move on from Cairo though. I found out about a really nice beach in a place called Dahab, in the southern Sinai. Cheap Too. I think what I might do is go there for a week and then come back here for a couple days (however long it takes to get my flight arranged) and then head back to the OKC. That means I’ll be back around the 20th. That’s two weeks earlier than I thought I’d be coming home, but I think I’ll need that time to make money. Gotta eat, gotta pay rent, etc. Meantime: Gotta rock out. Laters.