Dan+He

DEC 22nd-Malwa, new name Marathas

The beach is really nice at this little island, very, I repeat very HOT there so I never will move there even thought the water is nice. There were a lot of cigars and cigarettes, and other exports in baskets- the Americans must get all their cigarettes here-cheap! I was at the Suez canal in Malwa- mostly kinda dry-not much vegetation. lots of boats side by side-really crowded. The sand is really white and the water is deep blue-lots of torrerism must take place here because of its nature buddy of the water. There main exports are opium, rice,wheat, soya beans, plus they have lots of sugar mills. There are houses there iron roofs with some kind of cloth overhead with sandbags- Crowded docks with boatts, not to clean-I think this place must not have a great standerd of living.

DEC. 23rd--Red sea

Hi from the nice Red Sea. This place has a nice breeze- and the air is delightful. We are tralving by boat again. Today this place is really hot -like it is every day. I am going to Aden- today, hope it will be fun. I'm still kinda worried about the Somalian Pirates attacking our boat. these people have a small motor boat with a machine gun. The pirates usefully kill all the people on the ship and keep it sending or kill all the people and take all their stuff, either way you mostly die so I hope we don't have an encounter with them. Plus only 2 or 3 Pirates have been caught so there should be a lot out there.

This really freaked me out so now every time a boat went past to make sure that it did not have a machine gun on it.

This is a port coming from the red sea, but I am not sure whoch one it is malwa or Aden.

DEC. 26th-Red sea

Here I am at the suez Canal, traling by boat weve been in here from 7:30 to 3:40- a very long day. Way back in world War 1 This was a place were their were a lot of attachs and attemps to blow stuff up. Most of the way of the Canal has been flat. Right as we were coming to Suez Canal there were police cars and 3 guys with hand cuffs stepping out of a boat filled with shoe laces and a machine gun. someone sait they were Piretes from the coast of somilia who got caught at sea after stealing and killing everyone on a crue ship filled with shoe laces. The police boat was patroling and saw a machine gun on a ship and took the priates in to arrest them,and kill them. Over all thia trip has been fun, and I have learned a lot!