Jordan 1975 - 1997
A representative collection
from tours of duty and visits
Amman
King 'Abdullah I mosque
Roman amphitheater
Gold suq
'Aqabah - Wadi Rum - Deserts
'Amra desert palace
'Aqabah
Egypt seen across the gulf
Bedouin desert police
Wadi Rum
'Aqabah
Former Ottoman palace seized
by Lawrence
Valuable cargo
Camel crossing
Wadi Rum
Camels in Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum art
The Lawrence well and spring
Wadi Rum outing with the
Dunns
Bernie was the army attaché
in Amman
when I was the air attaché
in Damascus
The inscription reads
"Lawrence the Arab - 1917"
Emily at the Lawrence well
According to Lawrence's
book, he bathed here
Sunset - Wadi Rum
Petra
Entrance to Petra - made
famous by an Indiana Jones movie
Al-khaznah (the treasury)
Inside the city
Roman Sites
Jerash
Sunset over the main street
These Roman cities, regardless
of whether they are in modern
day Israel, Lebanon, Jordan,
Syria or Turkey, all look alike.
Umm Qays
Located in northwest Jordan
southeast of the sea of Galilee (Israel) and south of the Golan Heights
(Syria)
I worked for about six weeks
about a mile from here....
Basalt columns
Looking north toward Syria
Christian Sites
'Ayn Musa - the spring of
Moses built
over the rock Moses is said
to have struck
The rock Moses is said to
have struck
View towards "the Promised
Land" and Dead Sea from Mount Nebo
Mosaic from church on Mount
Nebo
Wadi Kharar (Bethany) - Site of the baptism of Jesus on the Jordan
Note Israeli flag on West Bank
Church on Mount Nebo
Mosaic from church on Mount
Nebo
Jordan River
Mosaics from the church
in Madaba
Tomb of Aaron (Harun)
Karak castle overlooking
Jordan valley
With my colleagues during my advisor tour
The Mudawwarah entry from Saudi Arabia - I drove a car from Abu Dhabi to Damascus via Saudi Arabia and Jordan, crossing here
