Jordan - Land of Never Ending Power Lines
Well, I’m being a bit disingenuous there, but that’s what it felt like on the trip down to Petra today. The trip from Amman to Petra is about 3.5 hours on duel lane highway, and it’s fair to say that there isn’t too much to distract you on the way. This is fair dinkum desert. The hills are bare of everything but rocks – and even they seem to be trying to get away from the heat. In many places you can look from horizon to horizon and see nothing growing save the odd tumble weed gasping for life in low lying areas. With such a lack of vegetation for disguise, the giant skeletal towers of the high voltage power lines stand out for miles. At points, the desolation seemed so absolute that I began to wonder where all these power lines could be going. These are the things you think about when power lines are the only feature to look at on a 3.5 hour road trip.