March - 2019

The Egyptian Prescription, Meeting Mummies and Making Memories

On the sixth day of our tour of Jordan and Egypt with Encounters Travel we flew from Amman to Cairo. Our flight was relatively short. It...

A Night in the Desert, Wadi Rum and Amman, Jordan

Late in the afternoon, we left Petra and drove into the spectacular desert scenery of Wadi Rum, where friendly Bedouin hosts greeted us...

Lost in Petra, Jordan

We began our day once again with no wake-up call, but thankfully both of our alarms went off as planned. I did not want to be late, we...

Running Late and Going Back in Time, Jarash and the Dead Sea, Jordan

“Jen, wake-up! It’s 8:10!” As Ol’s words sunk in, I bolted upright. Within seconds I was barking orders, “grab the phones, get dressed,...

The Holy Land, Israel

My step dad Gary was an amateur archeologist. Our basement was so full of artifacts that it looked like it should have been Indiana...

London Calling, England

I ’m a voracious reader. I always have been. Maybe that’s why a trip to England was so extraordinary for me. To actually walk through so...

Atlas Mountains, Morocco

In December, we flew from Portugal to Marrakech, Morocco for twelve days and stayed in a beautiful riad in the middle of one of the...