{"id":17043,"date":"2022-08-10T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:28:18","slug":"come-fly-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=17043","title":{"rendered":"Come Fly With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published August 7, 2020 by Linda Lou Burton posting about Cairo, Egypt from Little Rock, Arkansas \u2013 <\/em>Hurry, hurry, zip the suitcase, check out. Today\u2019s flight isn\u2019t too bad, just a few hours. I\u2019m flying Ethiad again, I didn\u2019t realize when I booked my flight that they are headquartered in Abu Dhabi, right by the International Airport. It\u2019s 1,480 miles from there to Cairo International (CAI) and then another 13 miles to my hotel, the Ramses Hilton. I\u2019ll be flying over Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and maybe Jordan and the Suez Canal.<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?attachment_id=17047\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17047\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-map-ad-to-cairo-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-map-ad-to-cairo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-map-ad-to-cairo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-map-ad-to-cairo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-map-ad-to-cairo-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-map-ad-to-cairo-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not leaving Abu Dhabi till 2:30 this afternoon, so I have time to do just a little more looking around this blindingly bright city that sits beside this incredibly blue water. As usual, I hate to leave where I am. I wish I had another week, at least.<\/p>\n<p>But guess what. I\u2019m booked for an evening dinner cruise on the Nile tonight. That\u2019s the longest river in Africa, remember?<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?attachment_id=17050\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17050\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-cairo-ramses-hilton-nile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-cairo-ramses-hilton-nile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/07.-cairo-ramses-hilton-nile.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published August 7, 2020 by Linda Lou Burton posting about Cairo, Egypt from Little Rock, Arkansas \u2013 Hurry, hurry, zip the suitcase, check out. Today\u2019s flight isn\u2019t too bad, just a few hours. I\u2019m flying Ethiad again, I didn\u2019t realize when I booked my flight that they are headquartered in Abu Dhabi, right by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3464],"tags":[3852,3830,3826,3726,3850,3851,3849],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17043"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19209,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions\/19209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}