Wanderlust Cafe

Evidence of the Journey. A long-ago trip to Egypt and the Pyramids.  A postcard with Greek handwriting bearing a postmark from Alexandria, the gateway to Egypt.  A view of the pyramids, perhaps as seen by Alexander the Great himself. Over a hundred years have passed, yet somehow this postcard survives. I gaze into its ancient [...]

A sister ship to the African Queen, moored beneath a highway bridge over the Nile near Aswan in Egypt.  How many voyages up and down the river she must have made.  Now she lies still in her mooring, under the uncaring canopy of a modern steel and concrete bridge. She has had a most satisfying [...]

An early morning image along the Nile River, accidentally turned sideways, suddenly reveals the boundary between the ‘real’ world and a hidden world.    If  you look closely, you can discern the banks of the river on the right and their reflection on the left. Such a thin boundary.  From this sideways point of view, it [...]

The best kind of insomnia, jet-lagged wakefulness on arrival at an exotic location.  A view from my hotel room at the Mena House Oberoi in Cairo in the early dawn hours. The excitement of watching the pyramids slowly emerge from the shadows as the day begins.  Wondering what adventures the day will bring.  Anything seems [...]

Beside a busy street in the Giza section of Cairo, our bus passed the fruit stand so quickly that it was almost a blur.  But hidden in the original crummy photo were the faint imprints of the vivid colors I remember. A little bit of Photoshop photo alchemy, and the transformation captures more accurately the [...]

One of the men told me he thought well of Cairo.  It was interesting.  “Take it from me,” he said, “there’s a lot in seeing places, because you can remember ‘em afterward.” – Rudyard Kipling This was a hurried moment in downtown Cairo.  Captured while rushing past many intriguing stores and shops on a quest [...]