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We have our bikes! We have our bikes! We have our bikes!
Wow, what an intense 4 days. Ups and downs, back and forths, promises and slip-ups. We have journeyed into the black-hearted depths of Egyptian bureaucracy and laughed in its face. It promptly laughed back, and made us wait four more days to get our motorcycles.
I will write a full description of what we went through to get our bikes through customs and registered to ride in Egypt, but for now suffice it to say that it took four days, caused Jason and me to lose our cool at least three times between us, cost about $500 per bike, and is now over.
We boogied out of Cairo as quickly as possible this afternoon, and got as far south as possible. We decided to take the route along the Red Sea, as foreigners are not required to travel with an escort or in a convoy, as they are along the Nile. Tonight we're in a town called Zafarana. More later, but for now we have a very long day ahead of us to get to Aswan in time for our ferry.
Parting shot...
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