Leaving Today for Switzerland and Egypt

It’s 10:45 am and I leave for the airport at 1:00. I’ll be gone for 2 weeks to Switzerland and Egypt. I now am to the point where I don’t get very nervous about these trips. I didn’t pack until last night after dinner. I had all my stuff pulled together in 30 minutes and then spent another half hour deciding what to wear for the overseas leg. (I finally decided on my running suit and long sleeve pullover shirt.)  I will take an Ambien when I get on the plane and try to sleep all the way over. When I land in Geneva I will find the showers at the airport and change. Then I’ll take the train to LCF and go right to work. I should be there by noon – clean and refreshed.

In Egypt we’re taking the weekend in Cairo again. We’ll do the tourist thing with some folks who have never been there. I’m not really into seeing man-made things all day. I would prefer a long walk along the nile or something like that. Sure, it’s impressive to see the size of these things but I’m a bit turned off at the slave labor used to build them. It is a bit interesting to see artifacts from a few thousand years ago but it’s not something I want to do all day. It’s not my calling, I guess.

I need to finish pulling together all my documents and stuff since the connection to the server is sometimes questionable. That’s a pain. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to write off line and post an entry or two during the trip.

Namaste