We visited the national museum of Cairo a few months before somebody tossed hand grenades into a tour bus. A schedule change prevented our taking a flight from London that would have landed in San Francisco about the time of the 1989 earthquake. We were at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor shortly before Islamic extremists massacred 58 tourists there . And we were in Rwanda in central Africa at the beginning of a civil war that would later result ... (more)