It was still dark outside when I stepped into the back of a white van idling in front of my Zamalek hotel. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little (okay, a lot) nervous. Here I was, my second day in Egypt, getting into a van with two Egyptian men to drive me …
I have been trying to write this post for two weeks. I thought it would be easy. I thought I would quickly summarize how the performance went and how I felt about the whole experience while it was all fresh in my mind. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. I’ll blame it partly on the fact …
I am in between travels right now, so I thought I would start a new feature looking back on past trips and sharing my favorite things about some of the cities or regions I have visited over the years. First up is Rome – one of my favorite large cities and probably one of the …
What scares you? What makes you feel sick to your stomach? Break into a sweat? Stumble over your words? Shake in your boots? We all have fears. Even the most outwardly confident, secure, calm, cool and collected person has something that brings out a feeling of dread in them. Most of the things that scare …
“The stuff on the news is nothing, Egypt the way we know it is over…it is a full scale revolution and the people will wake up to a different country tomorrow…if they ever go to sleep.” I read this statement on Facebook a few days ago, on the second day of protests in Cairo and …
I have wanted to visit Wimbledon for as long as I can remember. Not being willing or able to shell out several thousand dollars to get tickets through brokers or tour packages, I decided a couple years ago to try to get tickets through Wimbledon’s public ballot. When that didn’t work, I paid $40 last …
