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Sofia and I went to Egypt. It was a super fun trip- we saw shit I’ve never seen before. We had several days in Cairo and then trekked down to Luxor to see Karnak, Thebes and the Valley of the Kings, where we spent the bulk of our time fucking around down there, seeing shit heretofore unseen. On our way back north we went to Dendera. We visited the standards in Cairo: Saqqara, Giza, Memphis, Mohammed Ali Mosque and Khan El-Khalili. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a lot of fun, met the best dog in the world at the Collosi of Memnon and Sofia saved a cat’s life (maybe). We spent some time with Mohammed, who is doing and looking well. Mohammed, as a wedding gift, gave us several perfumes and was profoundly generous throughout our time there; we are deeply grateful to him!

Again, we did a lot of stuff I’ve never done in Egypt and had some pretty adventurous times. It was as hot as 111 degrees Fahrenheit (43.8 Celsius) while we were there. I ran one mile from Thebes to Karnak along the Avenue of the Sphinx, while a young boy stalked me, yelling, “fuck you,” throwing rocks and flipping me the bird. I smiled, waved and said, “Fuck you, too, friend!” back to him a couple of times. It was funny, not menacing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw this bonkers graven image of a snake in some sort of clear pod issuing from a flower (pictures below) in the bowels of the temple at Dendera and this weird, horned shadow man painted on a wall in Ramses IV or Ramses II’s tomb (take your pick, in the dark one is as good as the other). For clarity, though, I’d like to go on record saying that Ramses IV was a bitch compared to Ramses II, who was King Dingaling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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