Egypt is Something Else
There is really no other way to describe it. The pyramids are something else, the markets are something else and the driving is definitely something else! They are all things that you just have to see to believe.
I arrived three days ago, stocked up with my family, my camera, and a lot of Imodium. Since then, I've seen the Pyramids in Giza, the Egyptian museum in Cairo, taken a sleeper train to Aswan (on which ironically, very little sleep was had), woken up at 3am to take a long drive to Abu Simbel, ridden on a camel and visited a Nubian village for dinner.
Overall, the Egyptian people are quite nice - expect for the horse cart guy who, on my way here, tried to scam me out of $50 with the old note swap (pounds for pents). He almost got away with it too.
Tonight we set off on a 3-day cruise up the Nile to Luxor. I'll update more later, hopefully with pictures and the like. But for now, it's time to sign off.