Welcome to Day 8 of this 10 Day Travel Photo Challenge! My Dusty Flip-Flops has nominated me for this challenge, thank you my friend! My Dusty Flip-Flops and I have been following each other’s blog adventures here on WordPress since 2017. It’s always nice to reconnect! The 10 Day Travel Photo Challenge: post one photo for 10 days with no explanation…
Tag: Jordan
Christmas Eve Day, 2020 – Burntcoat Head Park, Noel, Nova Scotia
Continuing Our Traveling Tradition Since Michael and I married in 2015, we’ve traveled every Christmas Break. This Christmas, COVID changed how our Christmas would unfold, so with Michael in quarantine over the holidays – I took Christmas Eve Day to go on a local adventure to continue our traveling tradition! The Drive Nova Scotia has…
Today is my 51st Birthday! Reflections of my First Year in the Second Half of my Life – What a Hell of a Ride!
51 It is just a number. To me, 51 represents the distance in this journey of my life. Reflections Emotions are messy. Regulating them is challenging at best. Sitting with uncomfortable emotions without reaction takes practice. Meditation truly gives inner peace, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and the same applies to my meditation…
Just For Today – I Will Be Grateful For My Many Blessings
I am grateful for incredible moments! S, ❤️
Jordan – Final Moments & Final Thoughts
Michael and I both liked Jordan. A lot. Dead Sea Spa Hotel, Madaba Breakfast at the Dead Sea Spa Hotel! The birds would take food out of our hands! Morning view of Israel while we ate breakfast at the Dead Sea Spa Hotel! The afternoon Michael and I checked out of the Dead Sea Spa…
Amman, Jordan – Walk About & “The Scam!”
Our final afternoon in Jordan was a walk around the area of our hotel, Gerasa Hotel. A Jerusalem Hotel! Cool manhole covers: A place where smokers can buy their cancer! Liquor stores! Mosques: Fun people!The busy, main street had a pedestrian bridge! View from the pedestrian bridge! And underground pedestrian walkways, lined with little shops…
Madaba, Jordan – The Dead Sea
Never, EVER did I think that swimming in the Dead Sea would burn my bum! Burn my eyes, yes! Burn my bum, NO!!!!! Well, more specifically my anus! Yup – so much so, and so painful it was – that I was heartbroken to think I would not be able to float and enjoy this…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part IX – Final Moments
I enjoyed some time in the morning to wander around the camp and take some final pictures… The sand was so beautiful…like an orange sea with waves. The sand wasn’t as hot as the afternoon sand the day before, but hot enough! Weird tracks in the sand! Lizards maybe? The view! This was the location…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part VIII – Camel Ride to Watch the Sunrise
This wasn’t what I was hoping for. I booked an hour and a half camel ride for Michael and I – to watch the sunrise. What I expected was an hour and a half ride on a camel through Wadi Rum as the morning sun came up over the horizon. What this actually was, was…
Wadi Rum, Jordan – Part VII – Zarb – Bedouin Barbecue
The highlight of the evening was the Zarb – a Bedouin barbecue. Michael and I no longer eat meat, but can still appreciate that the chicken and lamb were slowly roasted in this underground barbecue for at least 3 hours! Bedouin in the entire Arab Peninsula have cooked their food underground, in earth ovens for…