Okay, I'm back. It has become standard practice of archaeologists to begin with a collection of archeological "evidences" and and then work backwards from there to the biblical text and attempt to establish a pattern of coherence between the material 'evidences' and the text itself using the 'evidences as the base line. This is completely the wrong approach. One must always begin with the inspired biblical text as the baseline against which all 'evidences' are measured. Scripture must always stand as the inspired metric.
In the Matter of the exodus, here is what we are told in regard to the rout taken out of Egypt.
"But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea." Ex. 13:18
"And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness." v.20
"Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea." 14:2
"Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water." 15:22-23.
"Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water." 15:27
"They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt." 16:1
"All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim...." 17:1
"Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim." 17:8
"Jethro, the priest of Midian,.....Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God." 18:1 and 5
"Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own country." 18:27
"On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain." 19:1-2