Pt1 - 6: EXTREMELY CAIRO TOO Don’t try this at home folks, but to simulate a stroll around Cairo attach a hose to your car’s exhaust, pass it through the window and bail out just before lapsing into a coma. Technically, this is an understatement because one doesn’t so much stroll around Cairo as mount a commando operation. The other thing we learned very early on about negotiating the city on foot is there are no straight lines here. To get from A to B you must pass through every other letter of the alphabet even if B is just across the road. The target of our first mission was the Egyptian Museum. Just for fun I pressed record on the microcassette. (All barely audible against a wall of sound like a chainsaw symphony with horns) Me: “Overcast morning…cold wind blowing…looks like Hitler’s Berlin in 1945…dog turds all over the sidewalks…smell of stagnant water and rotting vegetables…approaching Tahir Bridge…” Tess: “Aaaarrrggghhh!” Me: “They’ve torn up the...
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