The long day Into Egypt by any and all means...

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Hectic day. Jeanna tried to get her same day visa. All was going well until they reported
that the system was down so no processing would be possible till after the weekend. Didn't
want to stay in Eilat all that time (3 days) so began the long and rushed day in three countries across two
borders to find our way to Egypt.

Drove back over to Jordan. Headed to the ferry crossing to Egypt only to be pointed back into town for tickets. Get to the ticket booth and now we don't have enough cash having left in a rush. On top of that credit cards are not accepted and no one knows Trinidad and Tobago so she can't print out the ticket on her machine. Many a mad scramble and phone calls later we managed to sort it out. Sidebar Lesson learned here: When someone says pay me whatever you like it is almost universally always followed by a scornful look when you do pay what you like even if it's more than a taxi would usually cost!

Having missed one ferry and the language barrier being what it was we jumped on the next thing that was headed to Egypt. That we figured was as best a place to start as any. Can sort out whether it was the correct ferry or not later on. On the ferry we all had to give up our passports for them to process. I had serious reservations about this since the last time I gave up my passport it was on a ferry to Morocco where I was promptly shipped back to Spain the next morning (another story another time).

Got off the ferry and had to take a bus to baggage claim which was overflowing and couldn't close so we had to watch our bags closely in the luggage section below to make sure they didn't fall out. Curious still was how they were going to transfer our passports since there was no official in sight. Got some directions back and forth to a nondescript building where processing and return of passports was completed much to my relief.

Now this port was pretty much isolated from the rest of the cities so after many a haggle and hassle later to find a taxi and figure out directions we finally were able to make our way to Dahab.

Lots of places to stay and all near the beach so at least finding a room was the easiest part of the day.