Let me tell you about my time being Indiana Jones at Petra and why it’s one ANCIENT WONDER that’s not an underwhelming disappointment. It’s actually bloody spectacular and impressive and all manner of other words that middle-schoolers struggle to spell. Petra, if you didn’t know, is in Jordan, which borders Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and…
While staying in a hostel in Amman, Jordan, I ended up doing a day trip to the Dead Sea with the hostel owner and his family. I say day trip, but Khaled assured me it’d be best if we left about three in the afternoon. “Too hot, too hot,” he told me repeatedly. “During morning…
We were couchsurfing in Petra, Jordan, like every other place on the trip. The difference in Petra was that we were couchsurfing with a Bedouin guy. A terrifying Bedouin. Ghassab was tall, muscled, had dreadlocks, and was really serious all of the time. He didn’t laugh or smile once, no matter what you said, and…