This past weekend I went with the Language Center on a trip to Wadi Rum and Aqaba. The group left Friday morning at 8:30 am. There were probably about 65 students total. 15 of these students were from Miami. There were two buses, both looking pretty questionable in their ability to get us to and from our destinations safely. Thankfully though, t...

Thirty of us piled into two minibuses on Thursday for 26 hours of red bull fueled hijinks, laughs, and some occasional running. Craziness ensued and ridiculousness followed. The race was 241 km. All of which was barren desert. We had two teams of 10 meaning people had to run every 3-4 hours for 40 minutes. Repeat 6 times. The desert at night is ...

So we slept in a bit and our guy picked us up to take us to the Wadi Rum....Wadi means desert....Rum is the name. I was really disappointed once I heard that..... So it was a couple of hours drive south of Wadi Musa or Moussa depending on which sign you read almost ll the way to Aqaba. Neat to see the landscape around here.....we are talking des...

The winter weather desended upon us as we finished our second day at the wonderous ruins of Petra. No sense staying up in the high country with the cooler weather so we hi-tailed it to the coast and the city of Aqaba, Jordans port on the Red Sea. This is Jordans beach place, tax free zone and general place to come for a weekend to relax shop and...

Ok, so here's hoping this internet connection let's me post this. I think I'll give it a quick save just to see... Yea! It saved. So, I shall continue. As most all of you know that it is me, Kristi, writing these blogs, I'm going to stop with the attempt at bi-partisan language and just use first person. So much easier... Well, when last we chat...

Hi folks sorry this has taken so long it hasnt been very easy to get on fast enough internet since turkey, but we are both well (some wee tommy hicups but fine again) and getting our tans up Ants is almost as brown as me .... yeah right! (Ants here - I am so bro I blend into the dark!). So from Olympus we had a big drive day to the region of Cap...

We rented a car for the entire journey around the country (6-7 days). From the Amman airport we went straight to Aqaba. The ride was easy, roads were empty (compared to any European country), and the desert was sublime! We saw many Bedouin tents in the middle of nowhere, every now and then people were walking up and down the road and in the end ...

Went for another dive this morning at the Gorgon 1 site. Lotsa pretty corals and Papa clown fishes. Boy, the clown fishes are much bigger here than the ones I usually see. Prefer this site to the 'Japanese Garden'. But nothing much else to report from the dive site. Managed to find a place that does a traditional Chinese massage at the Aquamarin...

Aqaba is a seaport, Jordan's only outlet to the sea. It is at the Northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, one of two arms of the Red Sea. The other is the Gulf of Suez which connects to the Suez Canal. Only had one full day in Aqaba. Spent most of the morning finding the Egyptian consulate which was then wasted because I did not have a photo for the ...