My steed

Early morning camel ride

The view from our (cheap!) hotel in Giza.

Goodbye, Europe!

This fried Feta with sesame & honey is one of the best things I’ve eaten on this trip. Sooooo good.

What kind of physics expression is this even supposed to be? Confusing country.

CNC (we figure) marble-cutting saw on site for restoration work at the Acropolis.

At the Acropolis. It was insanely crowded.

At the Acropolis Museum. Wade: “Ho boy, we’re back in ancient terracotta hell!”

Insalata Parma. (I was informed food photos are mandatory when travel blogging from Italy.)

Via Appia Antica - the road that stretched all the way from Rome to Brindisi, in the days of the Republic & then Empire

Aqueducts! And silly hats!

Circus Maximus!

At Rome’s one-and-only combined feral-cat sanctuary and site of the assassination of Julius Caesar! (Curia di Pompeo)

In the underground part of the Colosseum

Upper colosseum selfie

We went to Vatican City, did the museum, and saw the Sistine Chapel. You aren’t allowed to take photos in there, though. So instead, here’s a cat. From one of the tapestries.

And a … whatever this is, from one of the maps.

The “traffic” in Venice gets pretty wild sometimes

In Venice even the ambulances are boats

Gondola ferry across the Grand Canal

Sunset over Venice

Eisriesenwelt, near Salzburg, a huge ice cave.

Wade was super excited that going into the ice cave they handed out actual carbide lamps. I confess I did not know what that was. It is pretty cool though.

Ice cave selfie

Ice “Elephant”

This, insanely enough, is a hiking path that passes by near the entrance to the ice cave.