A picture of me, smiling, wearing a light-coloured wide-brimmed sun hat, long-sleeved shirt, and backpack stands beside a signpost in a sunlit desert landscape of pale limestone hills, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. One hand rests on my hip as I pose for the camera. The signpost points in two directions and reads: "TOMB OF TUT ANKH AMON NO: 62" on the left arrow and "TOMB OF MERNEPTAH NO: 8" on the right arrow. Low white stone walls border the path in the foreground, while the barren rocky hills rise behind under a cloudless deep blue sky. Warm late-afternoon sunlight casts long shadows across the scene.