Today was a travel day so there is not really much to report. We went to the southern tip of Jordan, to the city of Aqaba, a port on the Red Sea. From there, we took a 2 1/2 hour ferryboat ride to the southern side of the Sinai Peninsula. The water of the Red Sea was crystal clear with hundreds of blue shadings. We went to bed early in preparation for our 2:00 am departure to climb up Mt Sinai, early enough to see the sunrise over the mountains from the top of the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. We noticed that the Sinai (Egyptian) desert is much sandier and rocky than either the Syrian or Jordanian deserts. There is little-to-no plant life in most of the area. It would have been a horrible place to be wandering in the desert for 40 years. I don’t know how the Israelites did it.
