Copasetic Flow

It occurred to me that just about a year ago, I wasn't looking out the window at snow, in the Rockies, I was looking out the window of a cab at snow on the Jordanian landscape on my way to Petra. While I've written about the strip search it took to get there, (OK, two strip searches!), and how this blog almost got me arrested, I've never put up pictures about how much it was worth the searches to get there! Here goes!

I'm doing a whirlwind tour of the middle east this week in conjunction with a few work commitments. As much as I travel for work, I thought I had the whole process pretty well figured out. Not the case! I landed in Tel Aviv early last weekend with plans of visiting Eilat, and then popping across the border to see Petra in Jordan. I planned to take the bus to Eilat. It was a four hour bus ride, but it seemed worth it to get to see Petra that weekend. I've ridden the bus in Israel before. It's not too big of a deal, just a little interview with a guy with a big gun and onto the bus you go. On the way to the hotel from the airport I asked my taxi driver where the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station was and explained my travel plans. "No", he said, "You don't want to take the bus that will take all day. Take a plane. For $100 it will take you one hour to get to Eilat." Wow! What a deal! Thanks to my taxi driver I'd just instantly reclaimed six hou...