Thursday, March 29, 2018 Tweisi, Wadi Rum, Jordan My homestay host is Aboo Salah and his wife and five children. He is a farmer and tends a nearby grove of olive trees. This is a very warm and gracious family, helping me to feel welcome and at home......Read More

Following a hot and sweaty walk through a siq (a canyon), past numerous tombs while bumping shoulders with braying donkeys, and up 845 steps, we found ourselves marveling at the immensity of the Monastery. The Monastery is the largest tomb located......Read More

I have come to Tweisi village on a Dragons trip every year for the last four years, sometimes twice. During my first summer, it was Ramadan and hot as hell; I wrote this piece during that first trip. Everyone gets grumpier as the day progresses and......Read More

We’ve arrived in Tweisi village. Today’s post will be short as I’m exhausted from a pre-wedding dance party with women from Tweisi and my fingers are still sticky from eating Kabseh (rice and chicken on a big platter with raisins......Read More