Date:         Sat, 12 May 2001 03:49:07 -0700
Reply-To:     Zoltan <zol@foxinternet.net>
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From:         Zoltan <zol@foxinternet.net>
Subject:      Fw: STEBBINS,  Cairo Report: Eastern Desert Trip
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Zoltan" <zol@foxinternet.net>
To: "Stebbins" <stebbins@aucegypt.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: STEBBINS, Cairo Report: Eastern Desert Trip


> Are you crazy?  I was thinking of you often.  I don't know how much the
> others want to know and see the places where you are about, I am quite
> interested to know more and more.  It is a great pleasure to read first
hand
> the stories, right off the sand.  One has to take a step back and think
> about what a great trip you are on.  You are a great resource to us for
our
> future trip we will make.
> And if it turns out that we don't, at least we can say that we looked into
> it through your eyes.
> Yes, please give us lots of details, anecdotes, small things, thoughts,
> memories, facts, the brutal truth, the past and the unavoidable present.
> You are the only one of us who not just fixes his car and goes to work
with
> it, but uses it for the best purpose possible.  The designers would be
happy
> to know that the Vanagon is used for such trips too and taking you
anywhere
> in the most hostile terrains too.  We, town folks who don't dare to leave
> town in fear that there would not be anyone to save us if we get stuck in
> the woods or the desert, rather 'log on' and read your stories and think
we
> were there with you, as an armchair Laurence of Arabia.
> It is not the money that holds us back.  Firstly, we don't have any
> substantially long vacation unless we leave the job.  Secondly we would
not
> feel secure enough at a place like that.  We rather look at the pictures
and
> read the stories.  Besides there is not enough luxury there, we don't
speak
> the lingo, etc, etc.  Lots of excuses.  We will not go.  But I will.  And
if
> I work myself up too much, will leave in the morning.
> Until then, please supply us with as much report as possible.  Rare
> opportunity for us to have one of our guys there and give us the picture
> like it is.
> Thanks for all the previous writings of yours and looking forward every
day
> to those incredible Egyptian minutes.
> Zoltan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stebbins" <stebbins@aucegypt.edu>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:39 AM
> Subject: Cairo Report: Eastern Desert Trip
>
>
> > My wife (Pat) has written up the account of our Eastern
> > Desert Trip; a trip down the east Red Sea coast of Egypt
> > (western Red Sea coast) and then inland to Luxor and back to
> > Cairo - 8 days.  This is a report mainly about police checks
> > and police convoys.
> >
> > There have only been about 4 or 5 people who acknowledge my
> > posting of these trips to the list, and as this is again a
> > LONG report I will not burden the archives with a 28 KB
> > file.  Also I have noted that may folks put their trip
> > reports on the web somewhere and just give a URL for the
> > report.  We have yet to get that sophisticated.
> >
> > So if you would like the whole report, just reply to MY
> > email account (not the list) and I will gladly send the
> > whole report you to.
> >
> > If you just like pictures, you can go to www.photopoint.com
> > and enter my email address ( stebbins@aucegypt.edu ) and the
> > album is called "Eastern Desert Trip".
> >
> > I hope to hear from at least a few of you.  Malcolm
>