Return of the Blog

So, the blog died for about a week, for a variety of reasons. 1) Too much fun, not enough time. We constantly run around, and when we're finally back to our spot for the night, we're typically dead tired. Plus, the internet is not always working, etc. 2) For about 6 days, I had a serious bout with Suleyman's Revenge. No details required, but lets just say I wasn't as spry as usual. All better now, though, so time for some updates. Plus, we had camera issues, which caused some delays. Those, also, have been fixed.

Our last day in Syria, we hired a driver to drive us to Amman, Jordan. We stopped at the ancient city of Bosra, which has some spectacular Roman ruins, including one of the biggest Roman theater's around. It was wild.
On the way to Bosra, we definately had some, "whoa, we're in Syria" moments. We drove past multiple army training facilities. Tanks cruising by, Syrian army dudes yelling at each other. We definately saw some live drills. So - to whoever has infiltrated the blog - I know all about those Syrian tankers half way between Suweida and Damascus...
We then drove across the border at Deraa (where Lawrence of Arabia was arrested), and went to Jerash, another Roman site about 40 KM north of Amman. The overland border crossing between Syria and Jordan is something I'll never forget. Absolute and complete chaos.
1 big, stinky room. Tons of sweaty Jordanian men yelling and screaming. Zero concept of a line. Over 100 hundred degrees. Flies everywhere. The bathrooms - worst I've seen in my life. A total and utter mess, a zoo. Disgusting, the entire border crosssing was complete nonsense. Somehow, after about 1 hour, we made it through. Women in burkas passed out with children, flies all over everyone, sweaty Jordanian guys fighting and spitting and yelling. Glad we surived.
After that fiasco, we got to Jerash, which was amazing. There is a huge hippodrome that still has chariot races, which we, unfortunately due to the border fiasco, missed. Tons of huge Roman columns. A very impressive site. We arrived in Amman around 4pm. What an oasis Amman is...