Geo and I learned a lot about Egypt and had so much fun exploring. Egypt is located on the northeastern side of Africa. Egypt has various levels of altitudes. Altitude simply means how high land is above (or below) sea level. And in Egypt, the lowest altitude is found in the Libyan Desert. The altitude of this desert is 436 feet below sea level. The highest altitude is found at Mount Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. At Mount Catherine the altitude is 8,600 feet above sea level. Holy Idaho! I remember that Denver was called the “Mile High City”, because it was 5,280 feet (a mile) above sea level. 8,600 feet is a lot higher than Denver! Most of Egypt is covered by the Sahara Desert. Holy Idaho! Did you know that human beings couldn’t exist in Egypt without the Nile River? I wonder why? Okay, it is time to find Mr. V. Wish us luck!

Right now we are flying over Libya. Libya is located on the northern side of Africa (we attached a map). The country is about 1,759,540 square kilometers (about the same size as Alaska). The three main natural resources found in Libya include petroleum, natural gas, and gypsum. I was surprised to find out that over 90% of Libya is desert. And less than 1% of the land is arable . Arable lands mean that the land can be used to grow crops. I wonder what crops they grow in Libya?

We have passed by Libya and are now flying over Algeria. Algeria is the second largest country in Africa (the largest country in Africa is Sudan). Algeria is about three times the size of Texas. Wow that is one big country! There is a bit more arable land in Algeria than in Libya (about 3% of the land). Algeria also has more natural resources than Libya: zinc, petroleum, iron ore, natural gas, phosphates, lead, and uranium. Nearly all Algerians (99%) are Sunni Muslims while 1% is Christian or Jewish. The official language of Algeria is Arabic.

Now that we only have 30-minutes left of our flight, Meri and I decided that we better approach Mr. V. We have only half of an hour to learn more about this mysterious bodyguard. We will write more once we land.

We flew into the capital city of Morocco (Rabat). On our way to Morocco, we got up the nerve to approach Mr. V. Geo told him that he looked just like a man that we had met in Ethiopia. The man looked startled and said “no speak English.” We knew that he was lying, but he didn’t know that we were onto him. So we told him that we must be mistaking him for someone else. We returned to our seats and planned our next move. We decided that we would follow Mr. V and prove that he understands English and that he was the bodyguard in Ethiopia. As we disembarked the airplane, we kept a close watch on Mr. V. When he got into a taxi outside of the baggage claim area, we jumped in the taxi behind him and said, “follow the taxi in front of us.” We pulled up to a beautiful hotel in downtown Rabat. We lucked out and were close enough to the reservations desk to hear Mr. V talking to the receptionist (IN ENGLISH)! When he turned around to head to his hotel room, he saw us standing there. He quickly looked the other way, but Geo stopped him. We asked him why he said he didn’t speak English, when we had just heard him speaking English to the receptionist. He told us that he didn’t want to be bothered by “kids.” We told him that we weren’t going away until we found out what was going on. So he sat down and told us the truth (or at least the information he knows). Mr. Vuhn (aka Mr. V), was hired by the Equators to be their bodyguard in Ethiopia. He thought they worked for the Canadian government. When we visited the village in Ethiopia, he realized that he was working for crooks that had dog-napped Dewey. Mr. Vuhn approached the Equators about Dewey and they denied everything. Later that evening, Mr. Vuhn heard loud barking coming from the mud hut the Equators were staying in at Abuye. By the time he arrived at the hut, the Equators were in a taxi (with Dewey). The Equators owed Mr. Vuhn $2,000 for his services – which they never paid! Holy Idaho! So now Mr. Vuhn is looking for the Equators, too. He wants his $2,000, and he wants to rescue Dewey. So we decided that the three of us would work together.