Today I journey from Wadi Rum down to Acaba. The taxi driver tries to rip us off by dropping us off at the outskirts of town, what a surprise. I think there is a special place in hell for taxi drivers.
After yelling back and forth for a good 30min and me whipping out the [...]

I booked a tour of Wadi Rum through the Valentine Hotel. I wasn’t sure if this was a rip off or not, but after arriving in Petra it seems that people were paying twice as much as I paid for the same tour. We have six people crammed in our Land Rover Discovery SUV. There [...]

That morning I was talking to Yoko in the lobby when a familiar voice says my name. It turns out that Brian, a friend of a friend, that I had met in Dubai is also at Petra. We decide to check out Petra together and all jump in the truck for the morning ride down [...]

Yesterday I grabbed a minibus back from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Back at the Faisal hostel I hear news that the Japanese Journalist has returned to grab his things and is now being deported back to Japan and blacklisted from returning to Israel. I don’t have too much time to talk and ask questions as [...]

I got a haircut today from a guy whose only English was “Obama Good (followed by thumbs up) and Bush Bad (followed by thumbs down)”. It only cost 2 JD and was probably the best haircut I’ve ever gotten. The only downside of it was when he put alcohol on my neck and it burned [...]

So today I took a cab from Dubai Marina to Sharjah international airport for 120dirhams or 24USD to board a flight from Sharjah, UAE to Amman, Jordan for 40dirhams or 8USD. AirArabia is a budget airline that flies out of Sharjah and they’ve just hit their 4year anniversary, big woop? Well the cool thing is [...]