Day 135:

Luxor, now. I haven't actually DONE anything, but I have located a nice cafe, where I am sitting now... writing in this journal and drinking fine mint tea. The mint tea in India was nice: just regular tea with a bunch of fresh mint leaves stuck in the pot. I wonder now when I started to like the taste of tea, rather than simply liking the IDEA of tea. Perhaps that happened on the floor of a temple in Jeollanamdo.

I don't think that I will spend much time in Luxor. I will see the museum and the temples across the Nile and then move on. Save for the historical sights, the city seems unremarkable and charmless. I was thinking of spending ten days in each middle eastern country I visit (perhaps longer in Turkey) and today is my seventh day in Egypt. Even if I rush to Jordan I will surely end up staying longer than ten days.

Something interesting will happen tomorrow, maybe. I must close now and walk to the museum.