Back in Time

Saturday, May 19
Today we got to go to a site that was not on the itinerary because we did not get to spend the night in Palmyra as planned. So, we ended up in Bosra - also third century AD Roman ruins but the stones are not limestone but a local dark stone. The coolest part was entering a fort built in the middle of the twelfth century during the time of the crusades and emerging into the top of this huge third century theater. They used the existing structure in the 12th century to build their fort around. Today we had to cross the Syrian/Jordanian border which was accomplished without incident. And we spent the night in Irbid, Jordan. During the night I could hear the Muslim call to prayer. In the hotel rooms here, there are not Bibles in the drawers but stickers pointing the way to Mecca and often a prayer rug is provided.