Final itinerary

We have our flight plans set up now for all the flights until we return:

February 28, Chiang Mai to Bangkok on Nok Air Flight 8319 Depart 5:55 PM Arrive 7:00 PM
March 1st, Bangkok to Cairo on EgyptAir Flight 961 Depart 12:45 AM Arrive 5:45 AM
March 20th, Cairo to London on EgyptAir Flight 777 Depart 09:30 AM Arrive 12:35 PM
March 24th, London to New York on Virgin Flight 009 Depart 4:00 PM Arrive 7:55 PM
March 27th, New York to Portland on Alaska Airlines Flights 11/2493 Depart 7:40 AM Arrive 2:15 PM

We will send another update soon. We are preparing to head to Egypt in another week, and as part of those preparations I have sent a message to a guide in Egypt (who we knew through an Aussie friend). The guide speaks English quite well, but only reads/writes arabic. So I got the smart idea of using an online translation service (http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box) to translate our rather simple message from:

Mohammed,

We will be arriving on March 1st into Cairo. We will tour Cairo for a couple days and then we would like to go to the desert. We will call you when we arrive in Cairo to plan our travel.

Thanks,

Dave

Into:

محمّد ،

نحن كنت سنصل في مارس – آذار [1ست] داخل قاهرة. نحن سنجول قاهرة لزوج أيام وبعد ذلك أحبّ نحن أن يذهب إلى الصحراء. نحن سندعو أنت عندما يصل نحن في قاهرة أن يخطّط سفرنا.

شكور ،

[دف]

I sent off the message, rather pleased with the results. Then I decided to take the Arabic and translate it back into English, just to see how accurate that would be. Here is what came out…

Mohammed,

We was will arrive in practiced – March [1[st]] inside mighty. We [snjwl] mighty sticking of days and afterwards that loved we to the desert goes to. We will call you when we arrive in mighty to trip plans our.

Thanks,

[tambourine]

I am not sure if we will have a guide in Egypt after this message! My favorite part is how it translated my name into [tambourine]. At least it got Mohammed right.

Dave Sohigian

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