Salty sea cats…

Hello hello. We are currently in Dahab, Egypt, about to head back around the Red Sea and up to the white city. This trip has been one of the highest highs and down low lows. Yesterday we climbed Mt.Sinai, where that Moses dude lurked a long time ago and got messages from god. On the way back we saw this German couple on a fancy schmancy BMW motorsickle, riding it from Europe to South Africa for the World Cup of soccer. We were very jealous. But then we remembered we were having the time of our lives. Highlights include going to the White Desert, which is amazing and sort of like being on the moon, and seeing a performance of Sudanese musicians playing traditional Zar music (subcultural set of songs and instruments used for healing and living etc). I don’t know, it’s all blurring together, but I’ll be posting up photos soon. Until then, take a look at the wonderful illustration below by Lori D. It makes me a wee bit homesick.

holy moly i’m bad at this

away over a month and one post!? well, i’m now in the southern hemisphere and it is something else. the atmosphere, climate and people are just what we needed after a cold (albeit sunny) stay in the UK. after way too much overpriced pub food, delicious hummous will be coming out of my ears by the time we leave here. and there should be many photos to come. until then, i need to get some of these scotland ones up. as i write this someone is apparently trying to learn the saxophone on an adjacent balcony. gotta start somewhere, right?

PORTENCROSS, SCOTLAND

my mom and brother navigating the spring thaw.

i think that’s the isle of arran in the background, but that’s another story for a later day.

this is one of my favourite places in the world, one of those inexplicable things you just feel.

A WALK TO THE SHEEPY HILL, LARGS, SCOTLAND

obviously teenagers party here and proceed to break their bottles. think of the sheep!

it was cold, yeah, but also sort of like being in a fairytale.