"...The one bizarre thing that I know about Jordan is that the current King, when he was still the Crown Prince, appeared in an episode of Star Trek Voyager once because he liked the show so much. That kind of trivia stays with you."
Now if only we could get Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush into the transporter and sent to a galaxy far, far away...
I arrived at the Dead Sea yesterday. What a weird place! It's the lowest spot on Earth, famous for the healing properties of its sea mud and the buoyancy of its water. Well, it's true... large or small, you're tossed about like a cork, bobbing from side to side on the surface of the water- it's the strangest sensation! I was quite careful not to get the water into my eyes, because apparently it's incredibly painful, sending you, blind, to the shore, flailing about in search of a towel.
The beach is covered with people slathered from head to toe in black mud, baking themselves in the sun. Being the lemming that I am, I scooped up handfuls and layered it on, eager for the mud to change my life, and transform me according to the will of mystical sea gods.
The result? Pretty much a funny photo op.
And now I need a haircut because the salt dried out my hair.
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