You guys.
True story: I bought a ticket to visit a lovely high school friend in Cairo in December after much hemming and hawing and near purchases and near purchase panic attacks. Plane tickets to Africa are expensive, yo! As I'm sure those of you not living under a rock are aware of, some pretty serious stuff went down in Egypt in January and February, which led to my friend being evacuated, things looking like they could go really sour, my discovery that travel insurance doesn't cover acts of war or civil unrest (but yet it covers injury evacuation and death...kind of counterproductive, no?), and my fleeting hope that things would get better. And get better they did! The Egyptian people prevailed and my friend was able to return from her extended stay in Istanbul.
Thusly, I am traveling to Egypt today!
