We finished our final photos and loaded our equipment and shut down the excavation today.
We then packed up and transported everyone to Amman. Our equipment is now stored in the warehouse in Amman. Tomorrow several of us are headed to Jerash a well preserved Roman city.
Today we loaded up the buses to head to Amman.
We headed out to the site to take some more photos and to load up our equipment.
We all pitched in to load the truck so it did not take long.
Here left to right is Salah, Abu Hajar (foreground), John Mark Wade, Freidbert Ninow.
We said farewell to Karak and headed to Amman.
Amman is a huge modern city.
This is the school where we stored our equipment.
With lots of help it did not take long to unload the truck.
Here is our equipment which will be stored until our next season of work, probably in 2011.While we unloaded the truck, Dr. Gerald Mattingly and Dr. Jim Pace went to the Department of Antiquities to finish our paperwork.
Several of us ate pizza at Papa Johns for lunch, then we rested and looked around the city.
Tomorrow we will take a trip to the wonderful site called Jerash or Gerasa, one of the cities of the Decapolis.
John Wineland
Amman, Jordan
