You've done a great job of sprinkling facts into a very personal story. This account is making me reconsider my love of trains. I love the photo too - the junction box and butcher in particular.
Thank you, Beck. I think all of the various slow modes, trains, bus, car, bike, walking all really give good and different experiences. The butcher one is a favorite but I did waffle if it might be ‘too much.’
How incredible! From the road, not the river. Seeing it all super close-up. "Driving through these small towns, slowed to cycling pace by the speed bumps, brought me closer to life along the Nile’s banks than anything else on the trip had." Have done the same in northern India, and it is a world apart. Taking the road in a car vs bus, or on a train. Your expedition-- a true expedition!
One never has to go far in Egypt before encountering a police checkpoint...
Truer words were never spoken.
You've done a great job of sprinkling facts into a very personal story. This account is making me reconsider my love of trains. I love the photo too - the junction box and butcher in particular.
Thank you, Beck. I think all of the various slow modes, trains, bus, car, bike, walking all really give good and different experiences. The butcher one is a favorite but I did waffle if it might be ‘too much.’
How incredible! From the road, not the river. Seeing it all super close-up. "Driving through these small towns, slowed to cycling pace by the speed bumps, brought me closer to life along the Nile’s banks than anything else on the trip had." Have done the same in northern India, and it is a world apart. Taking the road in a car vs bus, or on a train. Your expedition-- a true expedition!
Thanks, Jeanine. Sometimes it is nice to get out of the cities like that, and glad you did it in Northern India as well.