After having much fun in Damascus, we decided that we would leave this morning and begin the journey home via Amman, Jordan. So we grabbed a service taxi with another couple. This seems like it would be a straightforward thing to do. However, this was quite the adventure;

firstly, with the service taxi driver, people on the street we 'met', and the other couple we traveled with and the other driver who replaced the first driver, just before the border crossing.

Then, there was the adventure of leaving Syria and crossing into Jordan with the driver, the customs people and the Visa people and the four or five times we 'gave up' our passports.

We arrived back in Amman around 2:30 p.m. today and returned to stay in the Palace Hotel where we had previously stayed when we initially arrived in Jordan.