We were in Aswan, Egypt; home to about a million sailboats. These simple wooden sailboats — called “feluccas” — carry people down the Nile River, toward Luxor. We had two desires: One, to visit Abu Simbel, a stunning Ancient Egyptian monument to Ramses II, carved in rock. Two, to take a felucca ride down the [...]
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