In which Zach visits the Pyramids of Giza, rides a somewhat clumsy horse, and inadvertently becomes a friend to a dozen Egyptian kids

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In which Zach starts off with his friend Haitham on his first journey to Egypt, jewel of the Arab World, and has an interesting and possibly discriminatory experience with Egyptian customs control.

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It’s been a year in the making, but Haitham and I are only a few hours from being airborne from Jordan to Egypt, or Musr as it’s called in Arabic. The two of us originally started planning this last year when our friend Silas was still in Jordan, but things never panned out and we […]

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I almost had a heart attack today when I opened up my Thunderbird email client after setting up and removing some SMTP accounts. Of my three main email accounts, the primary account that I use here in Jordan had suddenly vanished, taking out about 6,000 emails from the past year. I had been using a […]

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In which Zach examines the commonly-held Eastern belief that sleeping with plants next to you at night is potentially harmful. Is it true or false? Should we all be scared? (spoiler: no)

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Intracom provided my teammate Andrew with the company’s high-definition Panasonic HDC-HS9 camcorder during the race, in order to help record the memories of us being sweaty and exhausted. Now just imagine the wonders of being sweaty and exhausted, captured in high-definition! That’s right, 1440 x 1080 and 1920 x 1080 video clips were being taken […]

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