Shirts I packed: 3
Hours we slept: 2.5
Hours is took to get across the Jordan/Israeli border: 5
Number of hours it would actually take to drive straight from Amman to Jerusalem: 1.5
Buses we rode: 5 (3 of those were Israeli and we were obviously the only Gentiles on board. I’m getting used to being stared at by small Jewish children. Is it because I look Arab? We’ve been trying to figure it out all day.)
Number of times we ate hummus: 3
Hippies we met: 1 (We walked so many times around Saker Park our backs were aching from our packs. In the end we couldn’t find them, ended up at a hostel, and discovered the damn hippies changed their schedule!)
Orthodox Jews we saw: Cannot even count there are so many
Human traffic jams in the old city: 1
Friends we’ve made: 2 (from England and Norway)












