Whenever I start the following story out with the question: "Have I ever told you about the time my tour group got pulled over in the Wadi Rum desert of Jordan?," I always get an eyebrow raised at me.
To start this story off on the right foot, I need to say that first off, getting pulled over by the police authority in any country while traveling is not a situation a bunch of tourists want to find themselves in. Secondly, we were in the middle of a desert, several hours from civilization. No roads, no stop signs, no buildings, and no speed limits. Just blasting dunes in a 4x4 with our Bedouin guide and passing incredibly tall and beautiful rock formations at every turn. As it turns out, a few of these beautiful rock formations also come with a side of local police, and to make things even worse, we were also less than 20 miles from the Saudi Arabia border.
To start this story off on the right foot, I need to say that first off, getting pulled over by the police authority in any country while traveling is not a situation a bunch of tourists want to find themselves in. Secondly, we were in the middle of a desert, several hours from civilization. No roads, no stop signs, no buildings, and no speed limits. Just blasting dunes in a 4x4 with our Bedouin guide and passing incredibly tall and beautiful rock formations at every turn. As it turns out, a few of these beautiful rock formations also come with a side of local police, and to make things even worse, we were also less than 20 miles from the Saudi Arabia border.














