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Hello! My name is Caitlin, and as an avid traveler in a world full of avid travelers, I thought I would share some wisdom and personal experience from my adventures. I’ve backpacked the U.K., Western Europe, the Middle East, and all over the U.S. Follow me on my adventures from college graduate in West Virginia to professional wanderer on the West Coast.

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Photo By Becky Cook. View from hot air balloon of Valley of the Queens and sugarcane fields in Luxor, Egypt.

Jim James performed my favorite song of his :”Wonderful, the Way I Feel. And all was right with my world.

Three night New Year’s Eve Concert.

The New Year rung in with a lot of love in that room.

22 disco balls was the most I’ve ever seen at one time.

They brought it hard each night.

My Morning Jacket won’t ever disappoint you.

They sang “All You Need is Love” because even their covers are bomb.

None of this would have happened without this guy.

Have you ever felt your heart swell because your favorite band is singing your favorite band?

My year started right, and so far it’s still going pretty well.

Happy New Year. It wasn’t actually 4 months ago, not really.

The balloons stayed around for quite a while after they were released.

Brunch at Gaetono’s Italian is a good investment, especially considering their prices are beyond reasonable.

You can’t even see half of what’s stuffed in there.

Horsetooth mountain area

It was a beautiful morning for a chilly hike.

It’s only snowing in half of the photo, because weather is weird in CO.

Lots of this place, because it was just so pretty.

Fort Collins reminded me a bit of Ashland, Oregon.

Great Notion has a weird side entrance.

This is the front, bu you can’t enter this way anymore. But hey, if you see this, you’ve found it!

We spend too much time here when we come…

Just a cute bike shop around the corner from Great Notion.

Powell”s Books – the city of books, is an entire street block long.

“This place is a field.”

Our tent in the Bedouin camp.

The trucks we toured the Wadi Rum desert in.

A face of an elder Bedouin leader.

Wadi Rum at sunset.

The camp from a distance.

The camel painting.

The desert where the Martian was filmed.

This guy got in my panoramic, but it turned out nice.

Wadi Rum.

These are my favorite pictures of Rachel on the whole trip.

The desert is a beautiful background.

This was taken while going down a large sand dune.

One of the photographic stops we made.

Shobak castle.

Valiant effort, friend. .

The castle.

The landscape around the castle was mesmerizing.

Shobak castle.

Even more majestic from afar: Shobak Castle.

One of the city gates at Jerash.

Columns still standing.

A Colosseum in Jerash where a bagpiper played for us as we climbed around.

The ancient city.

More of the ancient city.

Another city gate to Jerash.

The columns were captivating.

More of the detail on the columns.

The old city in front of the new city.

A row of columns still standing.

The detail in the structures are so impressive.

Qurans in a row in the Mosque.

The King Abdullah Mosque in Amman.

The lines which the men align themselves to pray on in the Mosque.

The King Abdullah Mosque in Amman.

The view of the Roman Amphitheater from the Amman Citadel.

Roman ruins in the Amman Citadel.

The hand of Hercules within the Temple of Hercules.

Roman ruins in the Amman Citadel.

Roman amphitheater in Amman.

St. George Church, home of the oldest map of Palestine.

The mosaic in the church of St. George, the oldest map of Palestine.

Prayer candles in the church of St. George.

The church of St. George.

Monument to Moses on Mt. Nebo. The view was too hazy for a good picture.

Handmade mosaics in Jordan.

A quick stop at a mosaic shop in Jordan.

The Treasury lit by the multi-colored lights on the night tour.

One of the first facades of the daytime tour in the lost City of Petra.

The Siq in the lost city.

Horse carriages flew down the path in the Sig.

The treasury in the daylight.

Camels lounging in the shade within the lost city.

Some of the tombs and other facades within the lost city.

The amphitheater in the lost city.

Some of the beautiful rock formations and tombs in the rose city.

A donkey lounging in the shade and most likely waiting on his master to finish a long day of work in the sun.

Some more intricate facades built into the side of the mountain further into the lost city.

Excavation work is currently underway by two U.S. colleges.

The first of the 800 steps to the Monastery.

A young girl sitting in the shade of her stall and watching the tourists in the valley below.

The monastery.

The monastery, absolutely worth the hike.

I highly recommend this, and I’m very glad that we skipped the other side trails to make sure we saw this.

The monastery.

The goats napping beside the monastery.

Best view in Jordan, the signs said.

I thought it was a great idea, until Rachel pointed out we were following signs into the desert, alone.

The hut at the top of the mountain, finally.

The black valley view.

The gentleman sang softly, his lyrics carried away by the wind, and two couples sat on the cushions on the edge of the cliff enjoying the gentle breeze.

The black valley.

It was a beautiful view and worth the extra climb.

The lemon-mint drink is fuel to make it the rest of the way.

Elizabeth Baker handing out soccer balls from her nephew, Kassem Akil.

Boys at the orphanage playing with a tattered soccer ball.

The beautiful Sphinx.

Khafre’s Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu.

Camels everywhere.

Surprisingly there weren’t that many tourists.

The Great Pyramid of Giza.

Rachel in her element.

This picture cracks me up, I don’t know what I was thinking.

Everyone ready for our camel ride.

My guide threw a tantrum after they told him he couldn’t lead the camel.

Majestic, isn’t he?

Luckily no one was bitten or spit on.

Our camel ride took us to views you couldn’t get on foot.

Jill Petik on her camel.

The side of this pyramid was bombed to retrieve the treasures inside. They were lost at sea when the ship transferring the treasures sunk.

My camel was tired after our ride.

Poor thing was exhausted and did not like me taking his photo.

I am Francis Frith, only female, with a digital camera, and in a technology driven society where all people are amateur photographers.

The sphinx.

The view of the pyramids one foggy morning, from our hotel room.

Gas stop along the drive to Luxor.

The bus transfer from Marsa Alam to Luxor.

One of our group escorts.

A guard tower at a check point.

A larger village on the way to Luxor.

One of our escorts.

A local taxi van.

Kids driving small, taxi like vehicles, happy to see us, got out and chanted, “U.S.A.”

A beautiful scene outside the window made blurry by the moving vehicle.

Our view of the Nile from our room at Sonesta St. George in Luxor.

The entrance to the Temple of Luxor.

Temple of Luxor.

Avenue of sphinxes.

The avenue, at one point connected the Temple of Luxor and Temple of Karnak.

One of the most in-tact sphinxes in the avenue.

Another well-preserved sphinx.

Temple of Luxor.

Mosque at the Temple of Luxor.

Temple of Luxor.

A depiction of the last supper placed atop the hieroglyphs by the Christians.

Temple of Luxor.

A demonstration of how the Egyptians make papyrus paper, an ancient staple good.

Hot air balloon ride over Luxor.

Hatshepsut’s Temple from hot air balloon.

Hot air balloon ride over Luxor.

Hatshepsut’s Temple from hot air balloon.

Hot air balloon ride over Luxor.

A curious local watching our balloon land in a sugar cane field.

Hot air balloon ride over Luxor.

This boy gave all the women flowers, asking for something in return.

Hot air balloon ride over Luxor.

Hatshepsut’s Temple.

Hathor, the Egyptian cow Goddess personified the principles of joy, feminine love and motherhood.

The ankh is the symbol of life.

Hieroglyphs at Hatshepsut’s Temple.

Artists carving vases from the alabaster harvested from the mountains in the background, at the alabaster factory.

A man transferring harvested sugar cane.

Temple of Karnak.

Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Karnak.

There were dozens of giant columns in this room.

Temple of Karnak.

An example of defaced portrait and cartouches of Hatshepsut in the Temple of Karnak.

Temple of Karnak.

We walked around the largest scarab beetle in Egypt three times for good luck.

Temple of Karnak.

Woman in a sailboat on the Nile.

Sunset cruise on the Nile.

A man climbing to the top of his sail on the Nile.

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