Don't pee in the dead sea...

Jordan on my mind

I just got a really cool message from a friend and as it has only nonpersonal and very informative info in the middle east I thought blog maggie thoughts...

so................ Maggie thoughts Volume one

Harris is running and running and runnnnnnnning,( child of maggie and bill,very cool kid) dancing, just like Bill and singing karaoke...he likes your web-site, thinks it's funny, I like it too but haven't had a lot of chance to really read it, harris hogs the computer

Looking for work, looking for work, that's no fun, when you gotta get the mun.

We had a fun and wacky Hallowe'en, we were the characters from Waiting for Godot, I was Pozzo, Duane was Vladimir, Bill was Estragon and my friend Ana was Lucky. We crashed a few parties. you would have been proud.

Swam in the Dead Sea in Jordan, heard artillery coming from across the water in the West Bank, apparently just intimidation. Put my feet in the river Jordan, where, they have proven, was the exact place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus. Only 20ft away from the barbed wire trimmed walls of Israel. if you were to wade across the 20 feet of water, a Jordanian Army guard at the site told us, they would fire warning shots. The whole bank is lined with land-mines.

The craziest thing was how close everything is to one another. I really take the size of Canada for granted. I stood at the most northern part of Jordan, a place called Um Qais and I could see Occupied Palestine, Israel, Syria and Lebanon, while standing in Jordan with the Iraqi border a mere six hours east of me. The borders move in and out of each other. It's just crazy. Theoretically, from Amman you can get to any of the major cities in any of the Middle Eastern countries in about five hours. In reality however, with checkpoints, restrictions, customs, police, military etc....you can't really go anywhere by car but some have to so if you do go a three hour trip could take you 24 and so on. Lot's of stories. Very eye-opening.

Some thoughts on the middle east...pretty cool maggie...hope you have a good trip out west...

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