Whew
Turned out to just be throwing my passport at the hole in the officer's window.

So it's four hours later, and I'm just out about $25: $16 for the visa, $9 to get a random bus company to take me to Damascus. (ed note: actually, I was out another $60. Visas could only be paid for by US dollars or Syrian pounds; some naive sense of a Traveler's Code or compassion compelled me to lend the Norwegian and Australian money for their visas, trusting that they'd use my email address to contact me in the future and pay me back. Small part of me hopes they one day remember, but I'm not holding my breath) Pretty sure I won't be making it to Jordan tonight; I definitely won't make it to Petra. But I got across the border without much hassle. I just wish I'd brought a book to read--the iPod's almost out of batteries from playing Solitaire.

Labels: bar trip

- posted by roger @ 3:00 PM