Anonymous asked: lol 400 dollars in egyptian pounds? How did that happen and why didn't you exchange that before you left?
I ended up returning from Egypt on extremely short notice. I received really terrible news one evening and was on the plane the following morning. Didn’t really have time to bother with exchanging it and honestly wasn’t even thinking about it.
Until, of course, I arrived back in the U.S. and was taken into a little white room at Chicago O’Hare with a two-way mirror and questioned for an hour and a half as to why I, a 20-something American with a thick beard and a military duffel, have been traveling to North Africa and the Middle East for the past several years, speak Arabic, and just so happen to have hundreds of dollars in cash stuffed inside of a nondescript white envelope.
My reply began with something like “Okay, see, I know how this looks…”
