The new Aladdin movie released Friday May 24th, and if I wasn’t currently in Egypt I most likely would have went to see it. I’m not big on going to movies on their release dates because the younger crowd makes it miserable. Funny to say that, because I used to be one of those kids I’m referring to. I’m thirty now and just don’t have the patients for it now. I always worry some teenager showing off might throw popcorn …
Author: Lorenzo Faciane
The first ancient location I visited in Egypt was Saqqara which is an ancient burial ground in Egypt, and was basically the cemetery for the Ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. Saqqara has a few pyramids, well technically 16 different kings built pyramids but the most famous is the Step Pyramid. Aside for the architectural stand point this pyramids is significant because it is currently the oldest complete stone building complex we know of in our current recorded history and was built during the Third Dynasty. Getting to the …
I wanted to write this because early mornings in Giza is a completely different experience compared to the rest of the day and night. It’s extremely calm and at peace. The city of Cairo and the Giza area is super busy and it’s like functional chaos everywhere. If you every ride down the highway in traffic you will understand what I mean. It’s insane and I will try and to get a video the next time I commute. Anyways, back …
This was by far the most exhausting travel I’ve completed so far. It took me about 20 hours involving 3 different flights and what felt like miles of navigating through airports. I started out in New Orleans, LA where I currently live Uptown in the Freret neighborhood. I scheduled an Uber to take me to the airport and left my place around 4:30am to catch a 6:05am flight from MSY to JFK. This put me getting to the airport an …
This is my first post to hopefully consistently start writing daily. This has been a goal of mine for at least the past ten years. I’ve made several attempts indirectly but nothing I could stick with long enough to take seriously. So here we are again, I chose to write under a domain name that is my own name this time around because if you don’t take yourself seriously who else will? This is just a personal blog that I’m …