Posting from Egypt

I’m traveling in Egypt this week. Not sure how much I’ll actually learn about What Egyptians Think, since we’re doing mainly touristy stuff (Luxor, etc.) And I am not the kind of journalist who has one conversation with a cab-driver and thinks s/he has touched something essential or even, necessarily worthwhile in the soul of a country.
I have too much respect and affection for my Egyptian frineds to do that.
Next week, I will be traveling somewhere more interesting, and shall certainly hope to blog about that. This week, let’s see what comes up, eh?
…. Of course, it has also happened that travel has in the past allowed me to think in a different, clearer way about things that obsess me at home (the US-Iraq war, Palestine/Israel, etc etc.) I recall that when I was in Africa last year I did some posts about Iraq that ended up having shelf-life. Who knows what the suns of Luxor will do for my gray cells?
I tell you one thing, though. They will make a totally fabulous change from the cold snap that settled on central Virginia about ten days before we left and held everything there in a tight, icy grasp.