Keeping the faith: Petra by donkey
admin September 18th, 2007
John Stanko has just been to Petra and writes entertainingly about a donkey-back tour. It seems the experience of his steep descent, swaying precariously on the beast of burden became almost a religious one.
After we spent some time at the top (the monastery was bigger than the treasury, but was not as ornate), we decided to ride the donkeys back down the trail. It would not have been so bad if it was a trail, but the trail was littered with steep steps for most of the way down. I thought several times I was going over the cliff. I confessed sins I never committed and made vows to God I can never keep, trying everything I knew to do to keep that donkey on the path! My guide kept saying, “Relax!” and I kept telling him, “You relax! You’re walking and I’m about to die!”
Fortunately, of course, he returned to terra firma safely. Now we he has some promises to keep.
