This is my office in Habaka, Jordan I do have a mobile office on the bus also.  Just need internet

November 17th 2008
Well, I am home now and the blogging didn't go as planned.  I was hoping to add each day and keep everything in chronological order but that what happens when you don't have internet. So I apologize for the mess.  Still trying to figure out who this blogging works.  Thanks everyone for your words of encouragement for participating in my 5th Habitat for Humanity Build. Hopefully #6 will be in January to India (#1 on the waiting list), #7 in April to Papau New Guinea and #8 to South Dakota Indian Reservation.  Got to get to heaven some way....

Some interesting things I learned from my trip to Jordan:

-it is a beautiful country

-the people are always smiling and friendly

-there are more hills than San Francisco and you always seem to be walking uphill

-Petra, one of the seven wonders of the world, is really a wonder

-in small towns women don't smoke outside

-camels seem to love me

-that 16 adults in one room can keep themselves busy by playing dumb games night after night

-it is disrespectful to show the soles of your feet to anyone while you are sitting

-one of our members was walked home by Mike Myers

-another member met Olivia Newton John in an elevator

-that I am not too old to sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor

-that I am too old to walk up 900 steps to see the Monastery in Petra, so I took a donkey

-there are very few dogs in Jordan, only the rich have them, but there are cats everywhere

-that you can get used to the "call to prayer" over the loadspeakers at 4:30am everyday 

-one of our members was helped by Christopher Reeves (Superman) when she was lost

-that you can spend 12 days with 16 complete strangers and they can become your friends for life