\nAugust 13th – Drive to Arizona, hike Grand Canyon
\nAugust 19th – Race in the Boulder Muddy Buddy<\/a>
\nAugust 21st – Say goodbye to Bastion and Soo, fly home to Toronto
\nAugust 25th – Compete in Canadian National Wife-Carrying Competition finals with Butler?
\nSeptember 1st – Fly Toronto to London
\n(While in England, will stay in Oxford with
\nSeptember 16th – Meet
\nSeptember 28th – Say goodbye to Chrissy, leave Rome, travel either by ferry via Greece or train via Austria\/Hungary\/Romania\/Bulgaria to Istanbul
\nOctober 3\/4th? – Meet Jen<\/a> in Istanbul
\nOctober 18th – Say goodbye to Jen, fly Turkey to Egypt (Cairo)
\nNovember 8th – Fly Cairo to Morocca (Casablanca), meet Zeena?
\nNovember 23rd – Fly Marrakech to London
\n(Possibly fly or take train to Geneva to visit Brett while he’s preparing for the opera?)
\nNovember 29th – Fly home to Toronto
\nDecember 19th – Celebrate 30th birthday!<\/p>\n
– the Highlights of Morocco<\/a>, which takes me through Casablanca, Rabat, Keknes, Volubilis, Fes, Merzouga, Tineghir, Todgha Gorges, Dades, Gorges, Ouarzazate, Ait Ben Haddou, Imlil, Aremd, Essaouira and Marrakech. I’ll visit the Atlas Mountains, the coast and remote desert regions, the Royal Palace, the Oudayas Kasbah and the Marrakech spice markets. Really excited about riding a camel out to see the 150 meter sand dunes in Merzouga (highest dunes in North Africa, apparently). <\/p>\n Suggestions on things to see and places to stay while in Turkey or adjoining lands welcome ( Here are my travel plans as they currently stand for my six months off, for folks that want to meet up with me in foreign lands, or who just want to keep tabs on where I’ll be. Flights and times are booked\/confirmed, unless there’s a question mark: August 4th – Fly to Colorado, meet August […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Will post more detailed travel plans when I know what they are. The Egypt and Morocco portions of my trip are with GAP Adventure tours, specifically:
\n – the Absolute Egypt<\/a>, which takes me through Cairo for the Pyramids, Great Sphynx and Tutankhamun’s tomb, into Aswan for Nubian food, the temple of Philae, the unfinished Obelisk and Abu Simbel where I will see what
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