Egypt
August 10th, 2001I was in Egypt exploring. Though dry it was not as flat as I imagine Egypt, rather it was more like the Canyonlands in Utah. I was climbing up some kind of steep rocky spine and looking across at a cliff face.
Soon it was clear that this was not a natural cliff face, but rather an artifact of the ancient Egyptians. Suddenly after hard climbing I could see the cliff through a gap in some rocks from an unusual angle. I saw an incredible thing; there were images (photo realistic) engraved on the cliff face that could only be seen from this strange angle. The images were like those pictures in a crackerjacks box that changed if you looked at them from a different angle. The cliff image changed between a man, a woman and a scary looking mummy.
There was a car coming towards us on the narrow road so I told Bob that he couldn’t fit, but he just drove half way up on the sidewalk and kept going. Later there was a party on a ferry. We all drove our cars on, but Bob’s Humvee wouldn’t fit. He left sulking, like it was our fault that his huge SUV wouldn’t fit.
Emily sad something like “look how plump that dried cranberry is” as code to Ali to look at the cute guy. Ali said “yeah, that cop sure is nice”. I said “Jesus, if you are going to talk about cute guy in front of me at least use code I can’t understand!”. I was annoyed.
I tried to assemble a 747 by hand from a kit. I ran into a couple of complications.                   
So I reached my hand up under it and started pulling out gold coins, nuggets, and some diamonds. There was enough to fill a small backpack. I was so relieved to finally have money, that I wouldn’t have to worry about that shit ever again. When I really woke I momentarily thought the dream had been real. Sigh.
I was playing pool at Rhetick’s. There were two kinds of cues, those with built in compasses and those without. I had the cool kind but some girl demanded to use the compass kind. I gave it to her and then left in a huff.
Once there Jack wondered how I planned to get him back into the country which reminded me that Haverford was in Costa Rica. Then some stuff happened. While there I saw an electric Peugot with a Budget rentacar sticker and I vowed to rent one. Then I was on a plane back to the States and nervous that they wouldn’t let Mr. Bank into the country since he didn’t have any paperwork or even a collar. But some friendly thugs at the back of the plane helped distract authorities from my blonde cat by “toasting” their food, grilled cheeses, clothes, etc with a welder’s torch. Nice!
would stick these nicely made wood strips with a slot running alone its length under the bus. Then we would stick razor blades in the strip of wood to puncture the tires of passing busses. We would only do this to busses going to places we considered too “consumerist” or “commercial” like the mall.
The plane was not accelerating fast enough. The pilot needed to decide whether to put on the brakes and stop or to goose it and go. He goosed it. We barely made it over a building and some powerlines. We nearly died.