In Eilat, Israel we walked along the beach toward Jordan. Since taxis only hold four passengers, we needed to take two taxis inland to the border crossing. We found one taxi driver that would risk losing his license for three months by taking all five of us. On the short drive there he decided that 50 shekels would cover his risk, even though we could have taken two taxi’s for 20 shekels each. I guess luggage was extra and we had three backpacks. You’ll never guess what happened next. Continue reading ‘A lot of Eilat and Petra’
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
“Look! There it is!” cried Mom as we approached Gibraltar rock at midnight. It just looked like a hugenormis rock, and it definitely didn’t look habitable from my point of view. As we got closer, I could get the full aw at the almost vertical sides of the rock.
The next day, we were traveling around, having our hosts show us the rock. It rocked! My dad had gotten in touch with one of his internet students, asking if we could stay with them. They answered yes. As we were driving up to the uppermost part of the rock, Nathan, me, and two of the kids got dropped off to go walk to the upper part of the island. The grown ups tried to get up another way in the car, but never found us, so we were left to walk home alone.
I learned flash from looking over my brothers shoulder at age 8 or 9. This is a little something I’ve made, just for the fun of it:
Sometimes my dad hires me to make banners and stuff for his websites, and he pays me as if I was a professional. 