The trip to Tanzania took only two days but I was pleasantly surprised when I got to Cairo on my ten-hour layover to discover that even though Egypt Air was going to give me no miles for this trip they were treating me to a hotel and meals during the layover.
I stopped taking photos of places. A white beach adorned with “spinach” seaweed, a sunset over a white breaded mountain, a tumultuous waterfall in a smoking rainforest…they all start to look the same if you take out the people that come with it.
I couldn’t feel my feet anymore; the cold was piercing all my exposed skin, my mouth was as dry as the alpine desert I was surrounded by, and the shouts of the fellow trekkers had been drowned by the throbbing headache echoing in my ears.
