When I was growing up, Indiana Jones was my hero. It was because of him that I wanted to be an archaeologist. I wanted to explore the world and discover its hidden secrets. I remember watching The Last Crusade, seeing Petra for the first time, and thinking to myself, “I want to go there! I want to do that.”

I never became an archeologist but I did become an explorer.  

Last year, while I was living in Paris, an opportunity to do that finally arose to check out Jordan (an…

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