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Heatin' Up
... all of my family members together, it's more my grandma than her food but still everyone loves it and it is a symbolic center point for our family gatherings almost daily.
After iftar, I hung out with my cousin Mahmoud again. I met one of his friends, Omar. Funny thing about Omar is that his dad also went to ISU and is best friends with my dad, we had just never met. Omar is opening a new marketing department for a local company here and him and ...
The good Samaritans
... for me a special hot sauce. He had heard from the waiter that I did not think that his hot salsa was very hot. Insulted, he made me his super hot chile sauce and served it with a “take this, white boy”. He was disappointed when I ate a spoonful in front of him and did not blink. Of course it was hot but not like our hot salsa in Oaxaca.
Finished with the meal I work on my blog for a while before going to bed. Hasta ...
Too much time in the Holy Land
... of, oh let's say, 5000 potential belief systems, believers each think that they have found the correct one. And everyone else is wrong, doomed, heretic, heathen, infidel, idolater and going to hell (or at least fated to be reincarnated as a dung beetle). How can one trust a belief system so inherently biased to reward one's own ego? But it is difficult to grasp a post-Einsteinian, quantum God. It is much easier to believe that he looks like me, ...
Arrived safely in Amman!
... is purchased on arrival. Luckily, my taxi cab driver was waiting for me outside with the sign of my hotel, just like they confirmed with me. I was talking with the driver who works for the hotel part time as he is in school for accounting. He told me that the averge monthly salary of a Jordaian is around 400JD an month (around $550 USD). He said that theres so many nice placed to see in Jordan but to definitely head to the North ...
Day 20, Wednesday - Tel Aviv to Amman, Jordan
... of very wild surf and heavy skies. After another lovely breakfast we waited for Israel to arrive at just after 9am.
We started off by going down to Jaffa, the old part of the city of Tel Aviv & its original port. The whole length of the sea front in summer would look fantastic. It has been set up so well with parks and paved promenades, beachfront cafés & umbrellas as well as community bikes at racks along the way. Jaffa port (or Joppa in the Bible ...