Photo:Summiting Mount Sinai

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Mount Sinai is one of those mythical places, probably because Moses was there, that we don’t even really think of as real.  Guess what, it is real!  I took this shot of Jill and our guide as we were walking up Mount Sinai. Now YOU come up with a caption for this photo! To see [...]

Photo: Attention Danger

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The biblical Mt. Sinai does exist, and not surprisingly, it is in Egypt.  Clearly we had no choice but to climb the famed mountain.  Popular for sunrise, we chose to watch sunset from the peak, assuming it would be warmer (it was) and less crowded (it was). Small booths with snacks, water and bathrooms lined [...]

Photo: Kernak Temple

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Touring Luxor is an amazing thing to be able to do. The entire city is an open air museum just covered in artifacts and history. This picture was taken inside the Kernak Temple, one of the largest sites in the city of Luxor (which history remembers as Thebes) and one that could take anywhere from [...]

Good Beer, Bad Beer & Ugly Beer

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Some beer is great, actually a lot of it is. So good in fact that we dedicated a Foodie Friday to all the different beers we tried while we were in Europe. Beer helped us to become friends with a few Iranians and we became enthralled in Tanzania where our beer options were Safari, Kilimanjaro, [...]