Several unscheduled stops later the TARSID materialized with a sci-fi whine and a thump. The Professor opened the door and looked around.

"Okay, I think this is the right Memphis and the right time," he said. Behind him a fat man in a sequined suit and sunglasses leaned out.

"You shouah 'bout that? That's some hound dog ya got back there."

"You shouldn't be here at all. And as for you--" The Professor addressed the second man, who was Greek in appearance but dressed in a vaguely Egyptian style.

"We are Ptolemy I Soter," the man replied. "We wish to see Egypt before our reign. And we wish our fellow monarch to join us."

"Fine!" The Professor threw up his hands. "Everybody out of the TARSID." Another thump. "Oh, it's you we landed on this time." Caileadair Etana rose out of the dust.

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The Egypt Wine Tour