Along the way from Damascus to Palmyra, we stopped at a cross road....should we join the forces to battle the evils in Bagdad..a mere 150KM away, or forge forward to Palmyra? Our fate was decided at Bagdad Cafe 66 over chai.... the tour continues. Fayid got us all laughing playing eye spy with my little eye... can you guess what D stood for? That dam desert everywhere! Game over. We were fortunate to see a camel caravan taking the local Bedouin nomads to their wi...

Hello from Damascus! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. In our last days of Jordan we visited Jeresh. It would be similar to stepping back in time to when the roman's ruled. Beautiful columns, churches, and theater cover hectares of land.We even got to scrap with the gladiators and have pictures to prove it Next we dipped in the Dead Sea which was a lot of fun. We had a wonderful "float" trying to keep our head above water while performing para...

We are really loving Jordan & we feel each passing day seems to get better than the one before! We explored the desert of Wadi Rum in some pretty rustic looking jeeps, with our hair blowing in the wind & smiles on our faces as we raced along! Well, that was after one of the jeeps got a flat tire & ithad to turn back for another jeep. Surrounded by gorgeous colored sandstone mountains & spectacular red sands, we could not help but take numerous...

Ahlan wa sahlan... hello from Jordan.. Here we go one more time, we just lost our original entry…f***… this has been a learning experience.Anyways back to travels.We left Cairo on October 3rd for Mt Sinai, new tour leader and new tour group.After a 3 hour bus ride through the Sinai we arrived near St. Katherine's Monastery near the base of Mt. Sinai.Our accommodations were nestled in the valley surrounded by barren rocky mountains and dessert. Our h...