Boats, planes and trains, oh my!

The last couple of days, hubby and I have been discussing a trip to the States.

At this point, it would be easier for me to go by myself (read cheaper), but I do want him to come and meet my family, and he is eager to visit the States in any case.

We talked about some different ways to travel instead of just straight plane trips the whole way.

One thought was to take the train to Alexandria, then take a boat over to Italy (or thereabouts) and then fly from Italy to the States.

After that, we can either fly direct in to San Francisco, or we can fly to the east coast and take an Amtrak train across the States, which takes a couple of days but would be exciting for the both of us.

I have traveled across the States in a car before, so I've seen a bunch of things, but Ahmed has never been in the US, and I think it would be really great for him to get this chance.

Also, we could stop and visit other family that way.

The only thing is, although the train trip isn't that expensive in itself, add to that the cost of flying, renting cars and staying in hotels while in California, and it stops being so cheap.

In any case, perhaps we can skip the boat part since I was having trouble finding any information on that anyways.  We can fly from Cairo to say Boston or so, start the Amtrak there and take it across the States, and then on our return just fly straight to Cairo.

Of course, it all depends on money.  Hubby thinks we will need like $10k for the trip, which sounds like a bit much to me, and I don't know when we'd ever have that much saved up, but we shall see.  I want to get there for spring break, which is beginning of April.

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I'm finally out of the hair conditioner that I brought with me from the States.  I use it sparingly, so it's lasted quite some time, but alas, it is done! 

This is a bit of a shame, as it was a nice organic conditioner, with no scent added.

Since I'm particularly sensitive to scents, this is of utmost importance when buying shampoo and conditioner.

I'm hoping I'll be able to find something to replace it.  I have heard some people using olive oil or egg or all kinds of food in their hair, but honestly, that just sounds way too messy for me.  Plus, I'd like to keep my food on the inside.  lol

I also ran out of the soap that I brought with me.  Ran out a couple of months ago actually.  Thankfully, we did find something to replace that.  I had been using Dove sensitive skin/ unscented.  The unscented part being the most important. 

They do sell Dove here, but not unscented, so that was a no go.  And they do sell 5 million kinds of scented soaps here, none of which appealed to me.

We finally found a glycerin soap that has no scent.  It's made in Egypt which is nice, as we can support the economy here instead of me buying all imported stuff.  I wish that they listed exactly what was in the soap though.  All I know is that it's glycerin and unscented.  I think they often times add other ingredients as well.

That is something I have noticed with products here, both beauty products and food, is that if it's produced in Egypt, they often don't have very comprehensive labeling.  Bakeries don't label anything with an ingredient list, which drives me crazy.

I guess the regulations here don't call for it.  Which is a shame.  At least as far as I'm concerned.