More thoughts from Egypt…all over

More bullets from the land that I just can’t seem to be able to describe any other way!  Pictures are all from Cairo, the first time there.
-Saw a truck on fire, from the engine.  Men were jumping out of the cabin while the truck kept on moving.  Told my taxi driver.  He just smiled like it was a normal occurance.
-Dust.  EVERYWHERE.
-Cab driver had this a capella song playing for like 35 minutes straight.  It was sung in Arabic.  About 20 minutes into the song, the singer, actually, starts to cry.  The song crashes to a halt, the singer regains himself and continues until, 10 minutes later, I get out of the cab.  For all I know, this song could still be going on!!! wow.
-I’m looking at this piece of bread for sale by a ferry-side vendor in Aswan.  I point to one in the middle of a huge pile of bread just at one of the pieces in front falls on the (so disgusting I cannot describe it) ground.  A guy picks it up, tosses it back up to the middle of the pile and smiles at me as he prepares to serve me the piece I was oggling originally.  I walk off with a look like I’d just seen Jesus and the guy has the nerve to give me a death-stare for not buying the piece of bread I originally pointed at.  Mmmmm!
-Pulling into Cairo at end of overnight train ride.  We were stopped just shy of the station for 45 minutes. The conductor, sadly, had a heart attack.  I hope he is well.
-Bikes there have foot brakes.  Isn’t that a yo-mamma joke…?
-One of the taxis I took had a rear-view mirror made of a regular piece of cut mirror…the edges of this thing were sharper than razors!  Unbelievable…and if you think there’s a seatbelt that works in the whole country…. lol!

This is THE tourist shot.

I’m about 175 meters up in this picture…Ha ha!

Me and Mohamad, my taxi driver with the Giza pyramids in the background.

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