We Were Touring Egypt and Jordan …

Cairo Smoldering Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs ...and steaming up the Nile a year ago, absorbing antiquities; photographing everything from feluccas and sunsets to herbal essence and rug manufacturing, birds, people and ruins; noting the goodness, depression and desperation of the decedents of Ramses, Alexander, Cleopatra and Ptolemy.  Today, tourists are stuck for the time as the Internet, telephone service and airline transport is suspended -- while the Egyptian civilization determines how it will continue forward out of its present chaos.  We are sure that tourism, a major [...]