{"id":1245,"date":"2011-08-24T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T02:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2012-03-04T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T21:14:43","slug":"run-for-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Run for the border"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a great time in Haifa, we made a run for the Israeli\/Jordanian border in the southern part of Israel near Eilat, which is the easiest place to cross between the two countries. \u00a0Along the 5-hour drive, we stopped at\u00a0Mitzpe Ramon<\/a>, a massive geological crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.<\/p>\n

The border crossing\u00a0was entertaining. \u00a0We couldn’t drive our rental car across, so Stu dropped me and the girls off at the border station<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>then returned the rental car in town and rejoined us. \u00a0We had to pay our exit tax, have our passports stamped, then load all our bags (including two pastel polka dot little girl backpacks) up onto a luggage cart and push it the few hundred yards across the border. \u00a0All in about 110 degree heat. \u00a0Claire wasn’t impressed by the whole thing…. she spent most of the time either sitting in her stroller watching Curious George on the iPad, or smiling and making friends with the border guards and their large guns. Once we got through the Jordanian border process, a line of taxis was\u00a0waiting to take us\u00a0to our refuge for the night….a\u00a0fancy 5-star hotel right on the Red Sea beach<\/a>\u00a0in the town of Aqaba, complete with kiddie pool and beach cabanas.<\/p>\n

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After a great time in Haifa, we made a run for the Israeli\/Jordanian border in the southern part of Israel near Eilat, which is the easiest place to cross between the two countries. \u00a0Along the 5-hour drive, we stopped at\u00a0Mitzpe Ramon, a massive geological crater in the middle of the Israeli desert. The border crossing\u00a0was … Continue reading Run for the border<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-k5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}