Pt 1 - 14: GOODBYE MOSES About 20kms north of Kerak the King’s Highway took a vertiginous dive into the broad and spectacular Zarqa Ma’in valley. Poised on the lip of the descent the valley looks more like a deep canyon with the road winding through it like a giant black serpent. The thrilling hairpins demanded my complete concentration, not easy with the others still venting the tension of the gas station riot by doing dumb shit like introducing themselves to the long-haired sheep wandering along the narrow verges with much mirth and giggling in the back seat. It might also have been a means of diverting attention from the fact that I still occasionally felt for the door handle to change gears. Nevertheless, we reached the bottom the long way and in one piece. The laborious climb up the far side was made even more so by the lumbering truck in front of us, and by the time we crawled to the top of the pass the little Feroza was running pretty hot. I veered off at a lookou...
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