Living in East Africa

Living in East Africa has its benefits, as well as its set backs. 
 

View of Cairo from above. See the Nile?

Pyramids of Giza.

  

This is a place where modern living meets traditional standards that are ingrained in every passing moment, every daily meal, and each sporadic run-in with a stranger. You go where you have never gone before and expect to expect absolutely nothing, you just live. And in living sometimes wander about, while other times every hour of your day is planned to the fullest extent.

Aeesh. Yumm...

There is so much beauty and mystery in life that we often feel the need to hide behind the white smoke and keep up the façade…well when that façade and the billowy smoke that created with each exhale is actually coming from my shisha water pipe, it may be about time to admit the gig is up.
 

 
 

Egypt is such a magnificent place stuffed full of foul sandwiches and eggplant dips, camel-riding nomads and BMW-driving 17-year olds. Fresh fruit markets line the streets while children run about in dusty clothes and the kind of thong sandals often reserved for foreigners on vacation. Cars toot and screech along the unmarked streets that only a local can circumnavigate and a visitor merely attempt to cross, at best. This place is so magical: the land of Pharaohs and Queens, monarchs and colonists, travelers and militants, students and heiress’, cats and stray dogs.

Sahara Desert.