A Home in Stone
This is a photo of one of the smaller structures I passed by on the 1.2 km walk through Petra in Jordan. This was likely a residence for for one of the ancient inhabitants. Magic 206/365, A Home in Stone, Petra, Jordan, October 2009
The Monastery
After a 1.2 km hike through the ancient city of Petra, you reach its grandest treasure, the Monastery. What I wouldn’t give to go back in time to 9000 BC when this city was settled and see it in its day, full of life and markets and ancient people. The inside of the monastery was …
Petra.
Seriously. How did I never hear about this place before in my 30+ years on earth? It took my traveling to Israel for a phony reconnective healing seminar, becoming enamored with the place, heading back there three months later, sitting in my friend’s apartment reading a lonely planet guide and thinking “Oh, might as well …