Jordan

Richfielder Geoff Cuddy has been reading The Rake since day one and never misses an issue. While backpacking through Jordan, he and partner Chris Stevens camped in Wadi Rum, the desert where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed (and where the real T. E. Lawrence adventured). “The night we spent there was the full moon,” wrote Cuddy (above), “and it was amazing how you lose all sense of scale in the desert.” Stevens got snapped in Jeresh, an ancient Roman city that is currently being excavated outside of Amman. For our part, we’re glad Cuddy remembered to unearth The Rake from the depths of his backpack—we had traveled with him to Machu Picchu and the Mayan temples of Tikal, in Guatemala, but unfortunately, on those occasions, “The Rake was lost in my backpack and never got photographed.”

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