The Nile is the Longest River

A long time ago, back in 2017, I had a page-a-day calendar of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and I kept many of the pages for scrap paper or reminders of actual places I wanted to visit. Anyhow, I was in need of scrap paper, and I turned to these pages. I found one that asked the question, “The Yangtze River is the world’s third-longest river; what is its longest? And, well, the answer was the Nile River in Africa, and then an idea just went from there.

Read “The Nile is the Longest River” up at Eunoia Review.

And somewhere in the distance, a jungle would begin from the seed of an oasis, ignoring the dryness of the desert that lapped around it.

“The Nile is the Longest River” in the Eunoia Review

And for those who are curious, here is the calendar page that started it all.