Homeward Bound
After a relaxing few days at the Reef and Beach we have now all headed back home, Paul and Terri and family via Rome and Paris and Nancy and I via Cairo where we managed to squeak in a visit to the Museum of Civilization, a camel tour of the Pyramids and the Sphinx and a touristy sunset Nile river cruise that we would rather forget. This last entry will wrap up the blog for this trip which has certainly lived up to its name which (full disclosure) was chosen for me by Chat GPT’s artificial intelligence chatbot. Some things that surprised me or that I didn’t expect: - how close you can actually get to the mountain gorillas and other animals on a game drive, literally being able to touch them if you wanted to. - how on time all of the drivers were for pickups and how smoothly all of the entries into the National parks and border crossings were. In the vast majority of cases we were the cause of the delays or late starts. You often hear the phrase “African time” and that you ...
