Crab Crossing

On Saturday 24 November, our group took a 6 am flight from Aswan to Abu Simbel to visit the two reconstructed temples there on the shore of Lake Nasser close to the Sudanese border. Along the way, we crossed the Tropic of Cancer (23° 26′ 22″ N). (Our guide Ahmed said that groups that go by bus to Abu Simbel get certificates documenting the crossing.) So that makes Abu Simbel the farthest south I've ever been, since none of the Continental US is below the Tropic of Cancer. And it also means that in the last two months, I've gone from my farthest east (Moscow) to my farthest north (the Arctic Circle) to my farthest south with Abu Simbel. At present, my plans don't includeany more personal geographic extremes in this extended tour.