All aboard the Giant Red Dot, reprise

“Let them sleep who do not know the final day is here. The very last, and we leave at dawn.” –Laibach, B Mashina 

        

                In a short while, we’ll be heading for the airport. The flight back will take close to twelve hours; if all goes well, I’ll sleep through most of that. Once in Montreal, it’ll be another few hours of waiting, then a relatively short flight home. 

                Jordan is a fantastic country. If you get the chance to visit, it’s well worth the time and expense. The people are wonderful, the food is an adventure, and the landscape is breathtaking.

                I had the good fortune to dig with a wonderful group of people under the guidance of some very fine minds. There were amazing bits and rough spots all around, but in the end, we’re all coming home more experienced, more confident, and somewhat more dehydrated than when we arrived. 

                See you on the ground!

What a long, strange trip it's been

"Only one day is left, only one day. We are leaving the others; we are going away."-- Laibach, B Mashina

Camp Week is wrapping up. We’ve finished photographing, drawing, counting, washing, boxing, packing, shuffling, and captioning; tomorrow, we load stuff up and take it to either ACOR (the American Center of Oriental Research) in Amman, or to the Madaba Museum. After that, we’ll have time to play Tetris with our luggage and recent purchases. At about 11:00 at night, the bus will arrive (hopefully it will be the ParrotSquid Express, so named for the unintentionally-tentacled stuffed parrot hanging from the rear-view mirror) and we will head to the airport. In the wee hours of Friday morning, we will board the plane to Montreal, and from there, a handful of us will board the flight back to K-W. 

There will probably be a couple of follow-up posts when I get home, sharing some of the pictures I haven’t put up while overseas because of bandwidth limitations.

                It’s nice to go away, but it’s even nicer to come home. Jordan is awesome, but I miss my friends and family. Thank you for following my adventures. I look forward to seeing all of you (insofar as this is possible) when I return.

Upcoming Meat and Fire Night

You folks who know The Mr. and I well enough to know where we live (by invitation, not by some bizarre stalkerish behaviour) are invited to a Meat and Fire night on August 13th. You're welcome to arrive any time after 5:00 p.m., and things will go until people get tired and decide to fall over or go home. If you'd like to bring a food or beverage of some sort to share, that would be most appreciated, though by no means mandatory.

Anyone needing crash space should get in touch with me by email, or run it past The Mr. if that's more convenient. For those of you too far away to make it, we'll be thinking of you.