h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay okay okay, I _will_ get to it later when I have a bit of time, promise!

*Taps watch and tuts for a bit*

(I'm kidding - frankly, that you found time to write something that detailed so soon after getting back amazes me)

*s back*

I was writing it when I was there... when I got back I only typed it to Word and then put it here. *shrug*

*s out again*

*Watches Yael dash in and out and starts to get a bit dizzy*

Sorry - it was about 2am then I think.

Which of course is a good excuse for pretty much everything.

Oh yes. Sneaky late-night sandwiches, for a start!

Just enjoyed reading your, Amman--A Travel log....every word....carefully , this early morn here..No phone ringing.. no interuptions.....I felt that I was right there with you ...on the bus, taxi,etc....
One question?? In the 5TH "paragraph...that starts with There honestly isn't much to Amman....What did you mean by "But you get the point quickly..?" Did you mean there is not much to see??........
I liked the part about looking from the Jordan mountains toward home.....
A mile south of me is a tall bluff...called Rocky Butte..There is an elavator to the top...with a wonderful view to the Columbis River and over to Washington state...and I know how much fun it was to look down & try to see if I could see my little house.....a different perspective.....
********...................... No matter where I roam....there is no place like home ..............................

I think I meant that you get the point... you look a bit at the ruins, very nice, very impressive, very old, but how long can you do that for?

The other day there was a clear view all the way to Jordan (I love those days ) and I tried to see if I can spot the big cross on Mt Nebo, but of course I couldn't... still it was fun to think that it's there somewhere.


Oh by the way, I put the travel log on AWW - you lot happy now?

Very happy

PS.....what would the distance in miles...as the crow flys......be from the Jordan Mountains, where you were standing ...to your home......?????..I was on my way to and came back and opened this "machine" up , as this thought came to me......

Wow, didja really? Very dangerous this I'll have you know, you think 'well, I'll just have a little look' and before you know it it's been an hour already...

Um, distance then... I have to say I don't really know. I'll have to look it up somewhere.

So true,! so true ..So i figure it must be more than 5, more than 30 miles? Or like my looking from Rocky Butte to Mt ST. Helens....like 120 miles....Nite now , for sure...... ... ..

Definitely more than 5 miles... I looked online a bit and it seems the distance to Madaba is about 50km, so 30-something miles would be correct I think. Not all that much, eh?

Anyway, you can check out the map here, it's quite good: http://www.mideastweb.org/misraeldetail.htm

awfully close, anyway you look at it. Both Jordan and Israel are narrow countries, and both Amman and Jerusalem are in the center-ish of their respective countries.

regards from Chaifa!
(which would be a pretty city with a nice view from every street if only there werent these warehouses and drricks down by the shore really ruining the beauty...)

Haifa.

It's a very cute little city... and also the only one that has buses on Saturday (I know this doesn't matter to you, but to us secular folks that's a big plus). And they have a sea shore, which Jerusalem doesn't.

Jordan is not all that narrow in fact, because they've got that ridiculous oblong block of desert in the northeast. I have no idea what the person drawing that border was thinking.

OH! how I hootoo....Thanks for the MidEast Web GateWay link... I have Java Scrip........I have bookmarked it under "news"[I have 11 headings..on my browser...do not have to put bookmarks in one long column...or it would stretch from here to way beyond]....So I remembered my great map from National Geographic Magazine[1978]. of the Middle East..and today this brings this all so much to life.....Yes, Jordan sure is a strange shape....[must have been put together "by a committee"].....On reverse side of the map is History of early civiizations of the area...Have you ever seen these maps out of their magazine?? By for now .. ......

Traveller in Time just noticing an oddity
"You always take the bus, do you not have trains? "

Trains? Don't get me started... There is no train to Jerusalem. There are a coule of lines from Tel Aviv to all sorts of other places, but none to the Capital of the State of Israel. There used to be one (it was the first railroad in the Middle East in fact) but the line was shut down in '93 and IT HASN'T BEEN FIXED SINCE! For over ten years!! There are all sorts of nice plans, but they're not getting anywhere with them.

Traveller in Time checking maps
"Hmm, well, for whatI have noticed over the years trains seem to improve national and by crossing borders, international stablility. Perhaps that is the key.

How do we get them talking instead of fighting? Give them trains! At least they have something in common to complain about. "