egypt has been on your list since you first learned about the pyramids at school. it's also the one place where "i'd love to go, just not on my own" comes up every single time. this is how you go anyway, and feel completely at ease doing it. you'll stand in front of the great pyramid (it's so much bigger in real life), meet the sphinx and see tutankhamun's treasures at the grand egyptian museum. then it's the overnight train to aswan, a felucca down the nile, a bike tour past the valley of the kings in luxor, and a few quiet days in the desert at faiyum, sandboarding down the dunes, before one last night in cairo. and you won't be working any of it out alone. the cairo traffic, the train tickets, the haggling at the market? your guide's on it. you just get to be the woman who finally went to egypt, with a group of girls who are just as excited (and just as nervous) as you.