Back to Cairo

I arrived back to Cairo after five weeks of epic and reviving travels with Ana and a host of other friends.

Briefly here is what I did while I was gone…

I met Sarah BJ in Paris, did a little apartment hunting and exploring with her. Ana met us after two days. Then Ana and I trained down to St Jean De Luz to stay at Ana’s co-workers gorgeous beach side home. Stayed for about a week. Next stop Monaco to catch the presentation of the Tour De France teams and ferry the next day to Calvi, Corsica. Calvi was three nights and days of a sweet music festival and daytime adventures. Followed by three more days of adventure, one ferry ride back to Nice, and a train ride to Turin, Italy.

We spent three amazing days/nights in Italy wandering around, eating food, getting stuff for free, and falling in love with Italy. Then took a train to Lamanon in Provance for a long awaited father daughter reunion and plenty of pool time along side Aunt Anne, cousins Nate and Vicky, cousins Karen and Chuck, Furlow, Jen, and Dad. Finally a train back to Paris where we were hosted by Karen and Chuck. We met up with Ana’s friend Joel, wandered, took an arduous bike ride to Versailles, visited one museum, and waited out one torrential downpour then Ana had to head back to New York and I took the Eurostar to London to meet up with Mikey/Michael.

Michael is known as Mikey in London and a visit to see him, meet his girlfriend, his friends there, and his life was the perfect ending to the trip. While in the UK there was biking around town, an overnight trip to Haslemere, a pretty rad one day music festival, drinks old friend Bob, Emma, and Patrick, rain, and ENGLISH being spoken everywhere!

Now I am back in Cairo and job searching here and abroad. I have pretty mixed emotions about being here. I do want to stay, but having been in other countries for five weeks I got used to being able to easily walk out a door, hop on a bus, and get around. I forgot how difficult and immobile life here feels for me. I feel landlocked somehow. I am also feeling a strong pull to be near friends, family, and weather with rain. So, I am typing away fixing resumes and cover letters, doing numerous searches, and making phone calls. If you know of anything let me know, I am up for a move anywhere!

Pictures will be up once I find a packed away cable.