My friend, colleague and fellow traveler Caitlin is moving through her blogposts faster than I am! She writes over at Tastiest of Noms and has already even gotten through her Istanbul entries for our arrival in Jordan. Some of the pictures you see on the site are hers, some of them are mine. She doesn’t […]

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I’ve had this draft since three years ago, in 2015, and I never finished it. Here it is as I wrote it back in November 2015, while I was still on this trip…. Oh Amman – I only wish that I had been feeling better when I returned to your sweet, somewhat smoggy embrace. The […]

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Well, I definitely enjoyed my two days in Istanbul more this time than I did back in my last visit in 2009. Having three friends to laugh with definitely helps. The Turkish people I interacted with on the street were still a bit sarcastic and dry but it didn’t bother me as much as it […]

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After my last couple of trips to (what I felt was a) pushy city like Istanbul, I’ve arrived again with my friends Caitlin, Branden, and Kate. Today begins our two week long adventure in the Middle East – a few days in Istanbul (their idea, heh) followed by the rest in Jordan, where I’m a […]

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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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