I liked your post, it is great.

My son is an International Exchange Student from Syracuse University this year at the American University in Cairo. He was a backpacker this summer in between his semesters.
Wow is all I can say. I was impressed with his travels as he jumped on busses, motorcycles, boats and so forth to get around the Middle East. He went to Syria, Beruit, Jordan and many, many cities in between. He made amazing friends along the way.
He is quite the savy 21 year old traveller.

I am happy to take my 2.0 rating. I have had the opportunity to see so many cities, be part of many events (Balloonfest in ABQ, MardiGras on Fat Tuesday in NO, to name a few).