I took a mini-vacation up to Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center to visit Christine this past weekend. She’s been working there for awhile as a camp counselor, and it was great to see her in action teaching some little Pennsylvanian kids about nature. I wasn’t able to spend much time with her during her workday, of […]

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In which Zach takes his mother out for a flight (in which he is not the pilot) around Middleton for Mother’s Day 2012

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Carrying on from my previous blog entry, I awoke the next morning with the sudden realization that I didn’t know what I would have for breakfast or lunch. Whenever I did wadi hikes previously, it was with a house of my own and a well-stocked fridge. I decided to test my luck and hope that […]

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The past three days of my vacation in Jordan have been hot and tiring, but very satisfying. I’m throwing myself back into my “old ways” of being in the country with great gusto, but perhaps with slightly detrimental results. I should have remembered that it took time for my body to adapt to Jordan’s food, […]

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At first it seemed like Jordan had become a quieter city in my absence. Less traffic, fewer weather-beaten looking pedestrians. However, that may have been because my arrival in the country was at 2:30 in the morning. I had been afraid that the visa price at the airport would have tripled (some of my friends […]

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I’ve begun a return trip to Jordan. It was rather spur of the moment, as ticket prices suddenly dropped $300 for the first week in April, and I bought them on a whim last month, a craving for schwarma and wadis re-awakening deep within me. I’ve just finished off the first part of trip, a […]

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