1022. Home at last, from my "World Tour"! Egypt, Jordan, (Petra) and Israel -- # 1.
We left Salt Lake City at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, and flew to Chicago. From Chicago we flew to Frankfurt, Germany, and then to Cairo, Egypt. It took over 21 hours to make these connections, but we arrived on Thursday afternoon, as we lost 9 hours. These blogs about my tour will be mostly pictures, and explaining them, telling some of the interesting facts that I heard, from the tour director, Dr. Clark Christian, a retired LDS Institute teacher, and the native guides that we had in each country. He called himself "Bishop Clark" during the trip, and had sent the very informative book shown above, several weeks ahead to read before we got there. His wife Laurel also sent articles telling about customs of each country, etc. They also sent lists of scriptures connected with the sites we would see. The traffic there was very interesting! Cars didn't stay in their lanes, and people would walk across the...