Fwd: In Luxor!

Riding into Luxor today was an experience!  The ride started from our
desert camp (desert camp means no facilities, none at all, take your little
shovel for a walk into the desert and squat behind a bush kind of no
facilities) and once again we were blessed with a tailwind so before we
knew it the stark desert landscape began to green up.  Green means people,
and today we felt like celebrities, so we are pretty exhausted from all
that waving, yelling hello and dodging the young teenage boys who of course
like to play a sort of chicken game with the cyclists.  Today, we always
won, although Wayne did feel the lash of the cane!  At yesterday's rider
meeting, we were warned about how a long stick of sugar cane in the hands
of a kid just begs to be tried out on something, or someone.  Today, that
someone was Wayne and he got a whack across the butt from one zealous
Egyptian kid.