Baghdad- I returned to the Iraqi capital by road via a nearly identical route I took twenty years ago, two weeks from now. It was the utterly avoidable, wholly unnecessary war we could have avoided. Somewhat similar to Afghanistan, Iraq…
Amman- I’ve finished my fourth and final episode in my Jordan series by ambling around the barely ruined ruins of Jerash in the eponymous governorate north of Amman. I’d wanted to visit this site for decades and finally just made…
Amman- I spent two very long days hiking around the remains of the Nabatean kingdom in Petra in Jordan’s Ma’an governorate. I first explored this site back in 1998 when the surrounding area was far less developed and it was…
Amman-I took a break from the hilly hustle of Amman and took a service taxi (shared taxi where you split costs with strangers that only departs when its full) down to Jordan’s sole outlet to the sea, sleepy Aqaba. I…
Amman- After much delay the first part of my Jordan series is finally online with the rest hopefully being uploaded in quick succession. I lost almost my entire first week here after my phone was crushed leaving Beirut which sent…
Amman- This is a shorter than usual post about a shorter than usual video on my channel. On the way back to Beirut from Srifa last month, we made a quick stop at the Sadia sea castle. I’d always wanted…