After lunch, I wanted to smoke a hookah. Mohamed, our other guide, laughed. “You mean a shisha, my sister. What kind of flavor do you want?” Shisha (called a hookah in places like Turkey), is tobacco is soaked in molasses. Often, the molasses is flavored, I guess so it’s a little like dessert when you smoke it after dinner. It turns [...]
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This is the next installment of my book, tentatively titled, “Travels through Egypt.” After visiting the Temple of Sakkhara, we always go to the same restaurant, one of everyone’s favorites on the trip… In the afternoon, after Sakkhara, we stopped a desert oasis for lunch. On our way down the steps to the open air [...]
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Following is an excerpt from my travel memoir, “Travels Through Egypt,” which I am currently working on. Comments are welcome… Our first day in Egypt, we all got on a bus and went to Lake Moeris, a sacred site to Rosicrucians. The group, all Rosicrucians except for me and one other spouse, were having a [...]
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This is the 2nd excerpt from my work-in-progress memoir, Travels Through Egypt. This is the last part of chapter 3. If you have a suggestion for the name, let me know. I’m about halfway through writing it, and I’ll try to publish a chapter a week. *** Food helps to ground me, but for two [...]
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This is the first entry in the excerpts of my work-in-progress Egypt memoir, tentatively titled, “Travels Through Egypt” (if you can think of a name you like better – that still has the word Egypt in it – please let me know!) After 10 years of travel to many cities throughout Egypt, and with 5 [...]
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