Stranded in Paris!!!

Well, as some of you may know on January 27th I left the US and started chapter one as an expatriate. The original plan was to move to Cairo, Egypt. I left the US though Washington knowing there was some political unrest in Egypt. When I landed in Paris on the 28th I turned on my phone and was surprised to see I had a bunch of missed calls and voice mails from everyone ranging from my parents to Corporate Global Security. "Andres, what ever you do, DO NOT GET ON THE PLANE TO CAIRO!!!"

As a result I was stranded in Paris for 6 days until things got sorted and the other expats in Cairo were evacuated to Germany. I would eventually spend one full month in the EU before finally moving to my new temporary home, Cairo!

Below are the pictures of the 6 days!

Plalais du Louvre

Notre Dame

Arc de Triomphe

Louvre Gallery

Palais Versailles

La Defense

Montmartre

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Hello every one.. Sorry I have not posted much in the last two months, good news is I have lots of pictures of the last to months, hopefully ill be getting them up in the next few weeks!

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So yesterday a group of us headed out to do some exploring desert exploring of the East side of the Wadi Rayan Lakes... The goal was to find a really nice place to go kite boarding... Yea that's right Kiteboarding in the desert. Well the wind was not strong enough so we still did the exploring and had our off road fun...

Couple of pics on my Blog. www.AdventuresofAEGS.com

We were feeling a bit adventurous and decided to cross the dried up salt marsh... Turns out there were a few soft sports. Not on video is Dave's Toyota Hilux who also got stuck. He was not in as deep but we were in an area that did not have much hard surface... I pulled him out with my Wrangler with lots of help of the rest of the group with sand mats and stuff. Here in the video of Igor is pulling out Sam.

Base camp for lunch.

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Sailing....

Have always loved sailing.... Being out on the water and harnessing mother natures energy... No motor noise! Same goes for two of my other favorite sports, kiteboarding and sky diving!

Friend invited me out on his new 57 foot Sailing Yacht... Absolutely beautiful! Wind was relatively calm but we still had a great time sailing Biscayne National Park!

Sailing is just the type of activity I love... Takes a lot of practice, knowledge, planning and technique... To set all the lines, sails and have everything just right so when you jibe or tack all the lines and sails are in the right place and you hit the wind running.... The stress I love!

Father use to race Lighting class sail boats in Colombia and a long time ago a friend lent me for the summer their Sunfish sail boat. Its a 14ft 1-2 person sailboat that is a hell of a lot of fun... Realtivly fast and very exiting when the wind is blowing!

In 2009 my brother and I went down to Australia and New Zealand and we had the opportunity to go out on the 2005 New Zealand Americas Cup race yacht; code named NZ40! Its a 100% 80foot race yacht! Was a blast.... At one point we had a sudden increase in wind and next thing we knew we were at full tilt/roll/list to the point the edge of the deck was in the water... Was great... Got up to like 20kt which is pretty damn fast!

Here I am at the helm!

Here is NZ40. Look how small the people look on the yacht.

Anyways, brought the camera and took a couple of pics that I think came out well. (Click to view them larger)