Ready, set, GO!

The time has arrived and TODAY is the day when I fly to AFRICA! I will be accompanied by a big black backpack with the bare neccessities, plus a few comforting extras, and alot of nervous jitters! The month of preparation is over and I still feel like a kindergartner on her first day of school. I mean, can one really prepare for over 90 days in 13 mostly third world countries? I think not. Even this week I was thrown a curve ball when I learned that on the first leg of my journey, I will be turning in my black backpack for the proverbial little black dress. An editor from a travel magazine reached out to me via email requesting my journalistic services for a feature on Egypt for their October issue. She had seen a writing sample and my trip info on a travel blog that I had posted to some weeks back. As fate would have it, she needed me to contribute articles on scaling Mt. Sinai on a camel to watch the sunrise, Egyptian spas, and Egyptian golf courses. It's fitting that the magazine's title is "Dreamscapes" because I needed to pinch myself a few times when I first received the proposal. But alas, duty calls, and on behalf of all future readers and Egyptian travelers of Dreamscapes, I answer that call and go before to be pampered!