A Trip South

We recently traveled to the south of our country for a week to fill in for some work there.  The site looks over the crest of a beautiful wadi.  The area is such a place of paradox: stark, arresting beauty and unyielding desert earth.  Quiet, calm village and howling, unruly wind.  Traditional, earthy Bedouin people and harsh survival-based lifestyles.

One evening in particular felt a bit magical to us.  We packed up our little ones, plus a little girl we were watching, and hiked down to a rock wall discovered by friends of ours living in the area.  We got a chance to do a small climb, Caleb mostly just excited to get the harness and helmet on, and finished the evening with tea made over a homemade fire by our friend’s son, looking out over the wadi in the last of the light before hiking back out.  We went to bed with smiles on our faces, thankful.