Practice for one of the new adventures...

The Alegria driving range; 6th of October city, Egypt.

Just booked a future adventure with my Mother and Grandfather for Italy in Nov! It took her/us less time to pick a destination and buy tickets then it took me to write half the below post!

Blast from the past... Egyptian Adventure with Angelina Chimenti...

Three weeks ago on June 21st I started a little epic adventure/vacation as we like to call it... Who is “we” you ask...?

Angelina Chimenti, a friend from Calusa Elementary school back in Miami, FL. We graduated back in 1995 and went our separate ways... 

Sometime in 2005 or 2006 we ran into each other on Facebook... Then in Sept 2010 I get a random FB mssg... "Total randomness but I always wonder what you do?" I am guessing this was based on each others FB status updates and pictures.... Thanks FaceBook for the history lesson...

Fast forward to the weekend of January 20st 2011, I am supposed to be snowboarding in Utah or Colorado for my last weekend living in the USA, plans fall though... Talk to my mother that morning and she finds out I am not snowboarding > A few hours later I was on a plane to Miami.... Thx mom!

By coincidence it was Angelina’s birthday that weekend… We ended up meeting up for drinks in Coconut Grove… I was late as hell, confused Boogambilia in Sunset with Green Street… Bla bla bla… Next weekend I fly on a one way ticket from Cincinnati to JFK to Paris to Cairo…. But a little thing called the Egyptian Revolution took place and I ended up staying in Paris for 6days and then Germany (during the weekdays) for 3 weeks… That will have to be left for another post… We ended up talking quite a bit though WhatsApp…. She had always wanted to come to Egypt and had even tried in the past but plans fell though… Next thing you know June 21st Angeline is in Cairo and out Epic Adventure begins…

By the way, Angelina is right now in China so she is not going to see this for another week….

Unfortunately I was not going to be able to pick her up at the airport… She was arriving at noon instead of the usual 11pm flights and I had a bunch of work to finish up before taking off for 12 days… But I felt bad, I had promised that if she came “I will pick you up on my camel from the airport”…. Instead of the camel I was going to have to send my driver…. Well I ended up going to pick her up… Let’s just say I installed both batteries on my work laptop and took 4 global calls from the car in the 3-4hr round trip car ride….. She was surprised….

The next day Angelina was on her own for a private guided tour of the Pyramids, Egyptian Museum and the Khan El Khallil Bazzar… While I was in the office…..

That night we scrambled to go pick up some desert equipment from a co-worker and friend and then scrambled to see the sunset over the Pyramids... Did not work out. We ended up getting dinner at Sequoia which is a really nice restaurant on an island in the Nile river in downtown Cairo... Pics of the restaurants at the end of the trip...

The next day the real adventure begun.... We woke up early and headed off to the desert in the Jeep!

We drove about 1.5 hours south of Cairo towards El Fayoum which is a very large lake in the middle of the desert...

From there we went off road for about an hour until we reached these ruins… Here is a video I found on the net of the ruins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhVJZGtDa0

Ok enough for now... These pics were Angelina's... Will take a few days to process more pics and our videos! Next post Ill go more into detail about the adventure and lots more pics!

Till then...

AEGS

The start....

Ok so here goes nothing... Been procrastinating this for 6-7 months...

Here is my idea behind writing a blog. Basically I am living away from home and my only way to keep in touch with family and friends is though the internet... Mainly Facebook... Hip hip hooray....
I figured it would be nice to have another place where I could write a little more then a status update... A place to tell a bit more of the story behind the pictures and the brief status updates or satellite beacon check ins that say I am still alive in the middle of no where...

The hope is also that more people will comment. The idea is TWO WAY communication between family and friends.... :)

A little background about myself...

Was born in Bogota, Colombia and moved to Miami, FL with my parents and brother when I was two years old... The catch is even though I grew up mainly in Miami, I consider Colombia home... Spent most of my summers there and was brought up by my parents in a very Colombian way! I am 100% Colombian and love my country!

Between moving to Miami and leaving I went to Florida International University for Mechanical Engineering, worked in the aviation industry for a while and then bought a one way ticket to Cincinnati, OH in 2009.... The stuff in between will come across later as the blog goes on...

Mid 2010 my employee in Cincinnati approached me with the opportunity/option of taking on a totally new assignment in the Eastern hemisphere... Here I am now living on the African continent in Cairo, Egypt!

The blog is going to revolve around two topics. The past and the present... Occasionally the future... For the present ill write blurbs and post pictures... For the past ill post pictures and write about the pictures....

One of my many hobbies is taking pictures... Emphasis on taking the pictures. Mainly as a way of remembering my past adventures when I am old and suffer from CRS (Cant remember Shit)! See the thing is since 2008 till now I have taken over 70,000 pictures with my Canon 50D and the grand majority of those pictures I have not even seen, let alone processed out of RAW format.... Thats not even counting all the pictures I have taken from 2002 with my Canon G3.... So for the "past" my goal is to slowly process those pictures, post them here and write a bit about them....

Ok that's enough for now.... But first a quick warning/ill ask for forgiveness ahead of time... My writing and its style, or lack of. This is the way I write on... The... Inter.... Net... I will do my best for the spelling ;) But this is how its going to be on here.... :)

Ill get better at this blogging as things go on...

Will leave you guys with a picture of my last adventure which ill start writing about in my next post.... Till then...