The Stewart Blog

It is 4:45 a.m. and I’m awaiting my driver (I love saying “my driver”) who will take me to the airport for my flight to Luxor for two very long days of what should be amazing site seeing.

There is a problem with a cable in the Mediterranean that has affected internet service all over Egypt. Currently I can’t access my hotmail account. And I’m sure my family has sent me long newsy emails. Or they got tired of my questions about the home front and cut the cable. I’m hoping that with […]

Tuesday’s CSA trip was a horse back ride through “the weekend villas and small villages of the Nile farming community.” I took the trip not just because it involved horses, but because I hoped for a glimpse of the picturesque rural life outside of the city. Interesting would be a better word for it, unless […]

Monday was a trip downtown organized by the Maadi Community Center (CSA). This caters to Maadi housewives so was it was seven expat women and me. The tour focused on Cairo of the last 150 years since that is when this section was drained and built with most of the talk about Egypt gaining its […]

When Caroline played nanny when the girls first arrived in Cairo she spent a lot of time on the “jump in the water game”. The girls found it much more interesting than she did. I’ve got an activity to rival hers: counting pogo stick jumps. Anna’s record is 726 and Evie’s is 21. I’m in […]

On my way in from the airport I was rather surprised at the number of people walking in major roads. I assumed that it was due to lack of sidewalks. I also assumed it wasn’t for everyone, but apparently it is. Even little girls who casually follow their parents down the street and bravely cross […]

Like most people I thought Egypt was hot and dry. I was wrong. It is cold enough that I had to borrow a sweatshirt to wear around the house. And it rains. There was even thunder and lighting, which Brian said was new for him. The leaking ceiling was not new to him so when […]

My first morning in Egpyt I joined Brian for his weekly golf game. I’d heard about the course - run down, patchy grass, and few players. But as compensation the course is only several hundred yards from the great pyramids with a perfect view from the seventh tee. So I thought I’d get a preview […]

I’ve been checking off items on my list to get ready for My Big Adventure – two weeks in Egypt to take care of nieces Anna and Evie while Louise flies off to Rawanda for work. John is not pleased with this trip, but he’ll have a good time because life without Mom should be […]

Chincoteague is one of those places I’ve read a lot about (in the same Misty of Chincoteague series over and over again), but I’d never really been. I finally recalled that Scotty and I drove through it at some point because I remember the sign for Misty’s farm, but it wasn’t a trip that left […]