We Named the Dog Indiana

Pic of the Post—Tel Gath

To start off our trip to the wonderful land of Jordan, we made a windy ascent up to Mt. Nebo, the place where Elijah left on chariots of fire and dropped his mantle to Elisha, the next prophet. Here we paid tribute to that great prophet by singing the Spirit of God Like A Fire is Burning. 

We moved on to Herod's fortress built at Machaerus, where John the Baptist was likely imprisoned and later beheaded at the request of Herodias' daughter. Shame on her.

Despite the hated man that Herod was, he made some pretty impressive places of residences.

And what you've all been waiting for—Petra, the place of Wonder. The image that made Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade the epic movie that it is.

A tribute to those great men of renown who took one Harrison Ford and transformed him from a crusty Han Solo to a sophisticated yet rugged legend—Indiana Jones.

Ah the camels. What an odd yet huggable creature. 

A splendid monastery can be seen after a somewhat grueling 600-ish stairs up a mountain. Completely worth the blood, sweat, and tears. And sweat.

I'm not going to spell this one out... but this might just perhaps contain a somewhat hilarious visual pun.

The high place at Petra—it's no wonder people would make the hike all the way to the top in order to get closer to God (but which one?!?) —the view is breathtaking of the surrounding land.

If you can think of anywhere else in the world that can beat Petra on the super-mega-bueno factor, I want to go there. But in all honesty, I doubt anywhere like that exists.