Back in Town
We’ve just finished our whirlwind, 72-hour tour of Jordan. I will be posting more about what we’ve seen and photos in the next day or so, but here are a few highlights to whet your appetite:
- Slept under the stars in a Bedouin camp in Wadi Rum
- Watched a frightened man nearly break a donkey’s back
- Saw a camel parked at the end of a street
- Witnessed a car zoom up a huge, twisting hill in reverse for what seemed like miles
- Raced each other down a towering red sand dune
- Ate roasted chicken in the desert at sunset
- Brokered another shady transportation deal
- Wept in a cave
- Stalked by a menagerie of cats, camels, horses, and donkeys at Petra
- Hiked eight sweltering miles in one day, consuming six liters of water
- Gasped at Petra’s iconic Treasury, and hiked to the less-famous-but-equally-impressive Monastery
- Walked to yet another ATM when we ran out of money
- Played games in the sand with a group of lovely Bedouin children
- Negotiated the odd business hours of Ramadan
- Were had, once again (if we’re scammed for less than $20 a week, we’ve decided we’re doing pretty good)
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Thanks to the miracle of television, many of us here in the U.S.A. were able to view the same thing that you and Maikael saw (a frightened man nearly breaking a donkey’s back). Of course, we were no where near a Bedouin camp when we saw this. We were watching the Republican Nat’l Convention on CNN!