reading your blog reminds me how much we miss the Jordanian people We were in Jordan and Petra before Christmas and stayed at a local Bedouin village http://www.bedouincamp.net/index.html. In ten days we met hundreds of people from 20 something coeds to old and gray like us. Some stayed in 5 star hotels. We chose a billion stars in a Bedouin tent and camping in Waddi Araba on a 3 day camel trek. Another adventure was hiking into Petra the back way and exploring down the valley from the "monastery” to the "treasury" with an Ammarin Bedouin village guide. The archaeological and natural sights were spectacular but pale in comparison to the Bedouin people once they accept you within their homes. We think open heated people like you are a natural fit with the Jordanian people and you are therefore a great ambassador for modernity.
After two years of the expat finance bubble in Hong Kong, I am ready to explore the world outside of Bloomberg and AmEx cards and mix things up a bit.
I hope to meet some extraordinary people, have some ridiculous adventures, learn some new languages, and basically to be pretty confused every other day.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
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reading your blog reminds me how much we miss the Jordanian people
We were in Jordan and Petra before Christmas and stayed at a local Bedouin village http://www.bedouincamp.net/index.html. In ten days we met hundreds of people from 20 something coeds to old and gray like us. Some stayed in 5 star hotels. We chose a billion stars in a Bedouin tent and camping in Waddi Araba on a 3 day camel trek. Another adventure was hiking into Petra the back way and exploring down the valley from the "monastery” to the "treasury" with an Ammarin Bedouin village guide. The archaeological and natural sights were spectacular but pale in comparison to the Bedouin people once they accept you within their homes. We think open heated people like you are a natural fit with the Jordanian people and you are therefore a great ambassador for modernity.