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The back story.\u00a0 My first trip to Egypt was after a stop over in Israel. I had met a girl in college who became the nanny for the a University director in Jerusalem. The invitation was open to visit so I took advantage of it. My 90 day Euro-Rail pass had run out the last day arriving in Rome, where I spent about a week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>
The original plan was to take a ferry to Athens, then onto Istanbul, then go overland through Turkey through Syria and Lebanon to Israel.\u00a0 As with most plans, especially up to this point in time in Europe, changes were always inevitable.\u00a0 In 1984 political instability and anti-American attacks in Lebanon were on the rise.\u00a0 I knew general conditions in Syria and the Lebanese Civil War would present a challenge, but it got much worse.\u00a0 \u00a0In September 1984,\u00a0 Islamic Jihadists, with help from Hezbollah and the support of Iran, bombed the US embassy annex in Beruit, Killing 23 innocent people.\u00a0 These “on the ground events”\u00a0 prompted a route change.\u00a0 I decided to fly directly from Rome to Tel Aviv and take a bus up to Jerusalem.\u00a0 I’ll cover events in Jerusalem separately, but from there with the help of the University director and my friend,\u00a0 I managed to get a visa with them and ride on their bus across the Sinai into Cairo. I had made friends with a number of university students, so it was quite enjoyable but once they got dropped off at their swanky hotel, I wandered into Cairo and found a cheap place to stay.\u00a0 A small room, a toilet and a sink and the most overwhelming odor of insecticide I ever experienced in my life.\u00a0 But there were no bugs .. My brother joined me at this point in time, so\u00a0 the next day, we rented a car and headed out\u00a0 to Giza. We drove all around and saw many of the smaller archaeological finds. The black market in Egypt for cash was thriving at the time and exchange rates around the pyramids at the shops were really really good.\u00a0 Scarabs, papyrus and clothing were very inexpensive.\u00a0 For years later, my wife used to wear one of my souvenirs I bought as a nightshirt.\u00a0 \u00a0It was the male, traditional long white shirt, which reaches the ankle, known as a thobe, or dishdasha \/ kandoora.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the more memorable experiences was climbing up through the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), literally on hands and feet,\u00a0 crouched, on\u00a0 plywood with a string of light bulbs overhead for dim light, all the way up into Khufu’s large chamber where his large sarcophagus is. Of course the chambers had been almost completely stripped over the thousands of years, but to be deep inside one of the pyramids was amazing. There are no monies in the pyramids they’ve all been moved to the Cairo Museum which is worth the visit, when I was there there In 1984 There were mummies everywhere.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>
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Story of the girls buying tickets<\/p>
story of the human skull<\/p>
story of the littlee room with the holes in it and the kid asking for baksheesh<\/p>
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The back story.\u00a0 My first trip to Egypt was after a stopover in Israel in Jerusalem. I had met a girl in college who became the nanny for the University a director in Jerusalem. The invitation was open to visit so I took advantage of it. My 90 day Euro-Rail pass had run out the last day arriving in Rome, where I spent about a week.\u00a0 The original plan was to take a ferry to Athens, then onto Istanbul, then go overland through Turkey through Syria and Lebanon to Israel.\u00a0 As with most plans, especially up to this point in time in Europe, changes were always inevitable.\u00a0 In 1984 political instability and anti-American attacks in Lebanon were on the rise.\u00a0 I knew the Lebanese Civil War would present a problem but it got worse.\u00a0 \u00a0In September 1984,\u00a0 Islamic Jihadist, With help from Hezbollah and the support of Iran, bombed the US embassy annex Killing 23 innocent people\u00a0 \u00a0prompted a route change.\u00a0 I decided to fly directly from Rome to Tel Aviv and take a bus up to Jerusalem.\u00a0 I’ll cover events in Jerusalem separately, but from there with the help of the University and my friend,\u00a0 I managed to get a visa with them and ride on their bus across the Sinai into Cairo. I had made friends with a number of university students, So it was quite enjoyable but once they got dropped off at their swanky hotel, I wandered into Cairo and found a cheap place to stay.\u00a0 My brother joined me at this point in time, so we rented a car and headed out\u00a0 to Giza. We drove all around and saw many of the smaller archaeological finds. The black market in Egypt for cash was thriving at the time and exchange rates around the pyramids were really really good. One of the more memorable experiences was climbing up through one of the pyramids, literally and hands and knees crouched, and plywood with a string of light bulbs for light, all the way up into some of the large chambers. Of course the chambers had been almost completely stripped over the thousands of years, but to be deep inside one of the pyramids was amazing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Pyramids of Egypt My Pyramids of Egypt 1984 between Middle East wars.\u00a0 Desolate and amazing.\u00a0 Some links\u00a0https:\/\/annaeverywhere.com\/visiting-pyramids-giza-egypt\/#01\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/annaeverywhere.com\/shop-instagram\/ The Back Story The back story.\u00a0 My first trip to Egypt was after a stop over in Israel. I had met a girl in college who became the nanny for the a University director in Jerusalem. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b4idielist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}