Introduction![]() The Camel Tribe in the Villa Maguna's Pool, 1997 The Sinai is a triangular piece of land tucked between Africa and the Near East. It was here, in this "Moonscape", he arrived in November 1995 knowing that it was one of the best places for diving in the world.
In June 1997, he received a copy of the Harvard College Class of 1992 Alumni book, a book of names of people in his class giving brief updates on what each student had been doing over the 5 years since graduation. There were people working on their doctorates, earning their millions on Wall Street, and attending business or law school. Surely people thought he was wasting his enormous talents here in the Sinai? This is when he summed up to me why he was here in Sinai and not "doing the usual thing" back home. I'm gathering stories, he said, looking for different experiences - and then I'm going to do travel articles for The New York Times and let the office bound victims know what a beautiful, interesting world there is out there. The cool, cosmopolitan city of San Francisco was his next step where he would take his first steps to realizing these goals.... Claire Buckley |