Afghanistan & Egypt in the time of the plague

[MojaveGeek]

FYI, I've finished writing up the detailed trip report which accompanies these photos here:
https://netllama.linux-sxs.org/llamaland/?p=3039

Good read.  So you got to drive over the Salang Pass in the end anyway    The thought of actually flying from Kabul to Mazar took me a minute to get used to.  When I was a "value conscious" hippie traveling back and forth across Central Asia a few times in the 70s, I don't know if there even were flights!  I was wondering how you'd connect the dots there.  Sounds like you worked out a good short stay in a tough country to get around in.  I must have spent close to three months there in the course of my travels, and got into some pretty remote places, but it was all much safer then.  Besides the mosque in Mazar, my strongest visual memories are driving hours across stark deserts on horrible roads in vehicles lacking anything you'd call a shock absorber, and the cresting a hill to drop into a river valley full of cottonwoods, leaves dancing in the sun against the blue sky, cultivated fields, and small villages built of local materials.  Glad you got to get out there.

Now to read about Egypt!

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Ha, I was just thinking, "This is a TR worthy of FlyerTalk, and one that doesn't just gill the screen with details of the first class menu" so I thought I'd check to see if you're there, and lo, you are! cool. I'm MojaveFlyer over there. Maybe you can detect a theme in screen name?

I really like that forum. I've learned so much from my fellow travelers there, and saved a hell of a lot of bucks with interesting ticketing ideas (most of which no longer work, but...)