Weekend Getaway to Jordan
Ryan and I took a quick trip to Jordan over Thanksgiving weekend. We were extremely lucky to get a guided tour of some of the country from our new friend Moayad. He picked us up from the Amman airport in chilly (by Gulf standards) drizzling weather. It was nice to see the rain for sure. We drove the 3.5 hour drive to Petra, stopping along the way to get roadside Turkish coffee, see Roman ruins, and have a quick falafel sandwich. The landscape changed dramatically from rocky sandy soil, to rolling hills, than mountains and sandstone canyons as we headed south. It was so different from the Gulf landscape that we have gotten used to, and for the first time I felt like I was in the Middle East. As we got closer to Petra the rain stopped and the sun began to shine right down on the valley where we were headed. Moayad took us to Little Petra first which was a great warm up for what we would see the next day. We hiked up a path to the ‘bes...