Lack of updates

and pics is due to intermittent service/time out error frustration, and it is going to get worse, because tomorrow I will begin sailing down the Nile on a felucca for 2 and a half days.

I have lots of pics and will have to do a travelogue when to a good I find a good internet connection.

I loved Cairo. It is open 24 hours. Always loud. Everyone is happy, friendly. I felt completely safe going into dark alleys (looking for shortcuts), or hopping in any taxi.
I don't remember ever being more than 10 seconds from a taxi. They are ubiquitous.

The Egyptian museum needs to be brought into the 21st century, but Tutankamun's treasure is even more exquisite than you can imagine. It makes me wonder where the treasure from the other hundred pharoahs is hidden. There has to be so much of it, and of such incredible beauty (There is no way items of this quality have been made in the last few centuries, because no one had this much wealth), that there has to be a huge network of traders in Egyptian Antiquities. Thousands of secret rooms around the globe.