After passing through all the necessary checks on both sides, we piled into the minivan that had been sent from the hotel to pick us up. After paying a $30 fee that no one seemed to know was necessary, we were on our way up the Arava on the Jordanian side. I sat in the front next to the driver, and we chatted from time to time. He speaks quite good English and is very nice. We passed by Lot's cave (where Lot and his daughters escaped the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah) and continued along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea until we arrived at the Kempinski Ishtar Dead Sea Hotel.
We will be here until the 28th. The purpose of our visit is to prepare for the vacation of our client, a Russian oligarch and his family (and another couple and 2 security guards), from the 24th to the 27th.
The client and his family will be staying in the Royal Villa, a palatial 2-story house with its own private beach. I have my own room, as does David, my boss. Apparently, it's one of the cheapest rooms in the hotel, but it still is larger than my entire apartment, has a bed twice as big as mine, has a private furnished balcony, and provides a sweeping view of most of the hotel grounds, the Dead Sea, and the mountains of Judea on the other side. Today's pic of the day is a view of the sunset from my balcony:
This evening I also got to travel up to Amman. Picture this: an Israeli, a Russian, and an American (all of us Israeli citizens) walk into an upscale mall in Amman, Jordan, and what do we see? A Tesla Model S and a Tesla Model X, the first Teslas I've ever seen. Teslas, for any of you who don't know, are the amazing all-electric cars that are made in California.
I walked a total of 10.2 kilometers today.
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