Jess and Craig:

We are still alive, and in Tanzania!  Sorry to anyone who checks that we have not been keeping up very well online...the days are just packed!

We had a great end of our trip in Egypt, highlighted by a dive to the wreck of a WWII ship full of trucks, tanks, plane wings, motorcycles and other fun stuff (check it out:  http://touregypt.net/vdc/Thistle.htm) and also by a day of walk-touring in Cairo.

Now we are in Tanzania with our old friend Theron and his wife Jaki.  It is fun to be back in Tanzania, though a lot has changed in 10 years.  So far, we have been hanging out around Dar Es Salaam, where Theron and Jaki live.  We went to the beach south of here and spent a day, and aos visited the construction site that will one day be their home.  The rest of the time has been eaten up by trying to replace the stolen power window switch in Theron's car with a (far cheaper) household wall switch without starting a major fire (the first two attempts resulted in minor fires), drinking beer all day at ex-pat charity events, and hanging around the awesome house where they (and we) are staying, swimming in the pool and watching pirated DVD's of US TV series.  We are going to go on a few safaris in the next few weeks.  Jess and I are having fun and trying to remember our Swahili, which is coming back slowly. 

Hope all is well on the home front.  We will keep you posted if exciting things happen.

Take care!!