On July 4th 2005 I travelled to Cairo, Egypt where one of my old Tower Record friends, Vera Slutsky, met me from her new home in Moscow. We spent 3 days in Cairo and then headed south to Luxor for another 3 Days. We then headed east across the desert to Hurghada on the Red Sea Coast. From Hurghada we took a ferry to Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula and then made our way north along the Gulf of Aqaba to Dahab, Egypt where we spent the last 6 days of the trip.