Drafting in progress……. 

Follow our day-by-day progress–through notes and photos–from December 27, 2009 to January 14, 2010 as Nancy, Billy and I fly from Anchorage to New York City to Cairo to Luxor and Aaman.

(Note: This was a Whitman College Alumni-organized tour of about 30 Alumni, friends, teachers and students which included Whitman Archaelogy professor, Dr. Gary Rollefson.  This page must, therefore, credit Whitman, Alumni organizers Nancy  , and Margaret  , and Wings Tours and Nile Cruises Guides Hassan, , and Ossama  .Many of the words used to describe our tourning come from Whitman and Wings documents.  -dh

December 27: We leave Anchorage on Nancy’s birthday.

December 28: We enjoy NYC.

December 29-30: We fly to Cairo and enjoy an evening lecture by Dr. Zahi Hawass..

December 31:  Touring Cairo: Egyptian Museum, Citadel of Salah el-Din, the Alabaster Mosque3 (Mohammed Ali Mosque), and the Khan el Khalili Bazaar, ending with a New Year’s Eve Dinner at the Ramses Hilton.

January 1: :