After 6 months and 4 days I have left the beautiful country of Jordan, onward to more adventures. I had a wonderful last week in Jordan which involved not working, not sleeping, and generally gallivanting around having grand old time! I will miss so many things about Jordan. I will miss the food, the smells […]
The evening before my Thelma and Louise road trip I was invited to an Iftar dinner with some friends up in a forest near Jerash. We piled in my friend’s car and headed on up, hungry and excited. I fasted that day as I’d been up early enough to catch a delicious sahoor breakfast with […]
I feel like I’ve seen way more sunrises during Ramadan than in the last couple of years combined… but I can’t complain, because those nights have been pretty great! Yesterday I joined a friend for coffee which was guaranteed to keep me up till the wee hours of the morning. I’ve maybe had 3 cups […]
Last night was the championship game of the World Cup and Jordan got a little crazy. Bars and restaurants were packed to the rafters as fans and friends got together to see who would win it all. I stumbled around to a few locations before landing at a cute little cafe downtown with some friends […]
Ramadan Kareem, everyone! The Muslim world is well on its way through the first week of Ramadan, marking the holy month and my first experience with Ramadan. Ramadan falls on the 9th month of the Islamic calendar and lasts a month. People fast from dawn until dusk and abstain from drinking, eating, smoking, and other […]
So this one time I promised my (mostly fictional) blog readers a post about how Amman is awesome (isn’t that the point of this entire blog? Whatever) but in my computer at home I have another post that might come first because it doesn’t require pictures and it involves an anxiety attack, taking a bus, […]
So this one time my friend convinced me that I should bike from Amman to Madaba and because I have very little else I need to do, I said yes. And it was pretty awesome! We went with a group called Cycling Jordan which organizes bike trips around the country. I got up bright an […]
An American, a Romanian, a Pakistani and a Briton go on a road trip. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but I assure you, it happened. 642 kilometers, two trips to Petra and many bottles of water later 4 near strangers bonded over mutual struggle, international music, and the love of a little […]
Meg and I had planned to go adventure up to the Roman ruins in Jerash on Saturday but were dissuaded by our sunburns and lack of desire to continue walking around. To compromise we headed downtown to one of the many hamams that exist around town for an experience that neither of us have had […]
In the past 12 days since I’ve last blogged I have been to 3 malls, which is 3 more malls then I’ve been to probably in the last 2 years. I avoid malls and I dislike them- they are crowded and I can’t afford anything, so why go? Well, this is Jordan and mall culture […]
Caffeinated Wanderings 