Excellent adventures in travel
On Wednesday morning, I had a bit of time to wander the Winter Palace gardens before breakfast. Our destination today was the ancient city of Abydos, north of the Nile’s Great Bend. Abydos/Thinis Abydos was perhaps Egypt’s most important religious place for the entire history of pharaonic Egypt. The Abydos region was one of the … Read more
I want to start this report of our Kemet Club Middle Kingdom tour with an editorial note. These posts will be longer than usual, for several reasons: There was so much to see! Every day was packed with site visits. Visiting many of these sites was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so I took LOTS of pictures. … Read more
On Monday, December 1, 2025, I left my friends’ home in Cairo and flew to Luxor to join a tour group. This was an unusual undertaking for me: I’m allergic to package tours in general, and especially allergic to organized tours in Egypt. As some of you know, I fell in love with ancient Egypt … Read more
Before beginning the saga of our Friday adventures, a few words about where we are. The Dolomites are a southern extension of the alps located in northeastern Italy, lying between Austria on the north and east, and the relatively flat Veneto plain on the south. The area is dominated by fifteen massifs of 9,000-10,000 feet, … Read more
In mid-September, 2025, we embarked on a three-week visit to three very different regions of Italy: South Tyrol in the Dolomites; the Ligurian coast, on Italy’s northwestern coast; and Umbria, in central Italy, northeast of Rome. We took the nonstop flight to Munich, leaving Denver at 8:20pm and arriving in Munich on Wednesday ~ 2pm. … Read more