The Jordanian desert was as hot as everyone had said. My friend Mod had insisted that we wear the native robes to venture into what the Saba call the wilderness. I had come to Jordan to buy a horse. More percisely a stallion of remarkable blood lines. The first Royal Stallion to be sold for a hundred years from Arabia. The Stallion was really from Persia, a property of the Sha, in the time before the Itollas ruled the land of the Peacock throne. Jordan had become a black market for Royal treasures. Close to Palistine and the gateway to the west. The European Jews have opened the old world of Arabia in ways that no one would have imagined.
The trip to the Jordanian desert was a side trip. I had mentioned to Mod that I would like to see Petra and he had gotten very excited. He said we could make the trip but only as natives. So here was a boy from Oklahoma on the wrong side of the world dressed as a camel herder on a trek to see a lost city. Little did I know I would discover a world even older than Arabia and more secret that the Pyrimids of Eygpt. In Petra I would find the gate to Paradise.
The trip to the Jordanian desert was a side trip. I had mentioned to Mod that I would like to see Petra and he had gotten very excited. He said we could make the trip but only as natives. So here was a boy from Oklahoma on the wrong side of the world dressed as a camel herder on a trek to see a lost city. Little did I know I would discover a world even older than Arabia and more secret that the Pyrimids of Eygpt. In Petra I would find the gate to Paradise.