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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM December 10, 1997
Sunrise (local): 6:30 a.m. Sunset (local): 4:39 p.m.	Weather 65°F
Traveled Since Yesterday 0 m / 0 km Cumulative 1476 mi / 2377 km	Lat: 31° 31' 56" N Lon: 34° 27' 07" E Elev: 0 ft / 0 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Gaza City
Where We're Staying: DIA / Diwan el Shabab
Places We Visited: Al Ahzad Univeristy in Gaza City and Ithad Shabab Al Istiqlal (the Independent Youth Union) in the Jabalia Refugee Camp
Featured Site: Gaza City
Person of the Day: Yasir Arafat
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: malfoof; Breakfast: various baked goods from a local market; Lunch: somehow, again, we missed lunch today; Dinner: another feast of yummy pizza at Pizza Land; Olive Count: 1246
Word of the Day: Keit har lak? means "How are you?" in Arabic.
Tech Fact of the Day: The delicate art of hisssssing.: Flat Count (Cumulative): 4; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 19

Next Stop: We are staying in Gaza!

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