Stage 8 - Idfu to Aswan Egypt 104k (5 hrs riding time) It is hard to imagine a group of mostly professional people sleeping on the side of a busy road in a tent, tractors, donkeys, waking up in the dark and eating a bowl of oatmeal, also in dark, talking about how great [...]

Stage 7 Luxor to Idfu. 117k. 5hrs The Temples of Luxor are a site to behold and the rest days we had there gave my ribs and legs a rest. Gentle green fields replaced the city as we headed south along the Nile Valley. Bananas, sugar cane, and alfalfa fields dotted the road [...]

Desert Camp Police Check Point to Luxor 107km. Picture of woman working in field taken by Karen Robyn. The women are averse to men taking their picture. At just after mid night at our camp there was a lot of shouting and dogs and barking. The shouting was in very rapid Arabic. Eventually [...]

Stage - 5 145 km Safaga Egypt to police check point desert camp. Long day with climbing. Getting into large expanses of desert. Occasionally passing road side vessels containing cool water. Not sure who fills them. Tomorrow Luxor with rest day–our first in five days.

My friend Anton, a retired Slovenian businessman, and I stopped at this Mosque in a village. Today was his 60th birthday. A short day but some hills, head winds and traffic. I stopped for coffee and noticed I’d lost my ear phones so had to back track about an hour to look for [...]

Although difficult to see across is the Sinai peninsula and Mt. Horeb, you can see where Moses received instructions to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Today we follow the Red Sea from Sokhna to Ras Ghareb. Our headwinds of yesterday have become tailwinds and push us along on the [...]

Some good words of wisdom to start the day.

Media coverage in Ahram newspaper, the No 1 newspaper in egypt http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/1777605.aspx This is a broadcast message http://presstoday.net/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A3/

Day 1 - 115km 854 m vertical. We road from Cairo to the ancient port city of Sokhna “the hot spring” in Arabic. Long day with head winds which tapered off as we came into view of the Red Sea. Fresh fish and the largest pelicans I’ve ever seen. Looking forward to [...]

Ribs feeling better! Final test of ribs.