My last stop in the middle east was Cairo. I stayed here for five days. My first stop was Saqqara, a large, ancient burial grounds that features The Pyramid of Djoser (aka. The Step Pyramid). After leaving Saqqara, I headed to The Great […]Read More ›

On the way to the Jordanian-Israeli border we stopped in Madaba to visit St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church. This, in a nutshell, is what I know about St. George: he was a Roman soldier, a Christian martyr, he killed a […]Read More ›

My final day in Jordan, I visited the Jordanian capital of Amman. It was at the Amman Citadel that I made my final decision regarding my offer of enrollment into the Hollins University MFA in Creative Writing program. This was […]Read More ›

Before this trip, I’d never even heard about Petra.  My sister found out about Petra through a Lonely Planet guidebook, told me about this ancient city (and the fact that it was featured in Indiana Jones) and I was on […]Read More ›

Forty-eight kilometers north of Amman in the direction of Syria lies the city of Jerash, Jordan. Jerash was our first taste of Jordan. Within Jerash are the ruins of Gerasa, an ancient Greco-Roman city. Man in Greco-Roman decor. Gerasa was […]Read More ›