colduphere - you made me laugh! That is so true. I had to learn new ways to communicate that to taxi drivers.

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I didn't bother - it was wild, but it was an experience to remember!

As long as I'm alive to "remember it", I'm OK. I just have to keep telling them I don't mind NOT being the first one to my destination. I just want to arrive alive.

We crossed the 6th October bridge in a taxi on our way to the Egyptian Museum. It was early on the weekend (as I remember) so there wasn't much traffic. The car was from about 1975. The guy went 90 kph (55 mph) while traversing lanes like a slalom skier. From then on we were happy to be stuck in traffic just to keep the speed down.

<<<The guy went 90 kph (55 mph) while traversing lanes like a slalom skier. >>>

Hey, on the ring road, we saw a guy throw his car in reverse and <i>back up</i> (at high speed, to pick up someone on the side of the road) with everyone else going 65 mph around him!

<<Hey, on the ring road, we saw a guy throw his car in reverse and back up (at high speed, to pick up someone on the side of the road) with everyone else going 65 mph around him!>>

That's how people DIE on the Ring Road. I hate that highway.