Travels WithJohn and Janice

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John and Janice in front of a temple at JerashJordan
6 min read2022

Dateline November 1, 2022, Jordan and the Roman Ruins of Jerash

The Middle East had been on our list for years, and Janice finally built the trip. Flying first and business class out of Los Angeles by way of London and Cairo into Amman, we met our guide Hasan and spent our first day at Jerash, one of the best-preserved Roman cities anywhere, often called the Pompeii of the East. Then a Jordanian feast in Amman and a night on the shore of the Dead Sea, with the lights of Israel across the water.

#Jordan#Jerash#Gerasa
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The boat houses at HerculaneumItaly
4 min read2016

Dateline June 8, 2016, Pompeii and Herculaneum

We gave our one full day from Sorrento to Pompeii and Herculaneum, and a guide named Rosanna turned it into one of the best days of the whole trip. She made the dead cities live again: the shops and bakeries, the wagon ruts worn into the stone, the picture signs for people who could not read, and the plaster casts of those caught by the eruption. At Herculaneum we stood by the boat houses her own professor helped excavate.

#Pompeii#Herculaneum#Mount Vesuvius
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