Fresh air, sane driving, I might not leave this resort… if only people wore clothes…

In Cairo, I developed a cough due to the serious pollution.  If we drove around it got worse since the road fumes are horrible.  Now that I’m on the coast I’m relearning to take deep breaths again although I’ll get a good one in to find a smoker near by and start coughing again.  I’m so spoilt by northern California.

I landed in Sharm early Sunday morning to find most activities don’t open until 4.  Okay the only activity I wanted at the moment was a massage.  My back and legs are a bit sore from the horse ride I did on Saturday.   I could have done the camel thing but I realized it would have been fun for about 15 minutes then I would have gotten tired of the rocking forward and back on the hump.  This way with the horse, I had my own guide and we got to gallop and run.  I totally want to take horse riding lessons when I get home.   So around the pyramids (yes finally I saw them up close and personal) and into the desert we went.  The desert wasn’t the Lawrence of Arabia kind but more of a rocky terrain.  After the tour, I wandered about with all the other tourists and found myself deep inside the second largest pyramid in Giza.  It’s hot, sweaty, smelly (but better smelly than outside at times actually) and I could feel the thickness of the walls around me.  The claustrophobic would not do well in here at all.  You climb down a steep incline and then climb up another to find yourself in an empty  mid sized room where the sarcophagus used to lie.  The room wasn’t too bad, it was the in between corridor between down and up.  That was intense.  I could feel the thickness of the walls as I tried to catch my breath.  I could feel them closing in and realized, this was a bad place for this and stopped it from happening.  yeah mind.

Now I’m in Sharm and you are wondering why I wished people would wear clothes.  Every woman is in a bikini except 2 so far.  And these aren’t the two that should be wearing a one piece (as I have).  That topped with the European men and the nude sun bathing… my eyes my eyes,  I’ve been in a land of modesty too long maybe?

okay I planned to not send this until Monday, but maybe I’ll have a new adventure to chat about.  Lucky day for you, two in one.

Ciao.

-C