Mountains, Mayhem and Misadventures: Off to Egypt!!!

Tomorrow Angela and I leave for Egypt. We are going to visit Angela's sister and her family just outside Cairo. We've been reading up on different places we want to go visit and we're both really excited for this leg of our trip.
Catching up...
Angela and I drove out of Alaska and all the way down to Las Vegas! Along the way we visited with many different friends and family. We stopped overnight in Haines Junction to visit Scott, one of the guys I was on Denali with the second time. From there we headed down to Port Hadlock on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. We stayed with Crissy and Jake, good friends of Angela's from Gustavus. It was great to see them and we took a day to go up to Olympic National Park and did some hiking. Then it was on to Yakima to spend a few days with Allen (Angela's brother) and his family. We met Nate along the way and spent a night in Greenwater, WA, Nate's old stomping grounds. Next up was Smith Rock in central Oregon. We spent most of a week rock climbing at Smith. I'd been there once before but only for a day. Smith is a place I'd really like to get back to. There is a huge variety of climbs on different types of rock. We drove over to Portland for a weekend and were able to meet up with my parents and both of my brothers. This was great since all of us do not seem to get together very often. After Portland Angela and I headed for the desert. We spent almost three weeks in and around Las Vegas, climbing at Red Rocks and trying to stay out of trouble. We went to a couple big Halloween parties in Vegas that had some pretty awesome costumes, my favorite was a full size monster from Where The Wild Things Are. We also took a side trip over to the Grand Canyon where we met up with Nate again. He was able to get away from work for a long weekend and we did a great hike down to the bottom of the canyon and back up the next day. Grand Canyon was really cool, but I was shocked at the number of ridiculously unprepared hikers we saw. Shortly after our weekend at Grand Canyon we parked the truck and hopped on a plane out to Virginia. Angela took a weekend to go up to Boston to see her brother and we also made a quick trip up to Penn State to see Sean and Joanna. We've been helping my parents get packed up for their move out west and trying to see as many friends and family as possible.
Well I think that pretty much brings us up to now. We've had an incredible journey so far and we still have a long ways to go. Hopefully we'll still get to see a few more folks along the way. Here's a few pictures from our trip so far, now if you'll excuse me I've got some pyramids to go gawk at!!

Olympic National Park