When we took a bus to Jerash, Jordan, it was raining hard. So hard that Amman flooded and just today this online article was posted:

https://twitter.com/alarabiya_eng/status/669648027729072128

You’ll see from the article how hard it was raining, and many of our fellow travelers stayed on the bus, but we trudged through the mud and saw the unbelievable. A Roman city with intersections, the complete water systems, and The Great Temple Of Zeus. A complete theater. You usually see them with the back of the stage knocked down, but this back stage was still there.

It goes back to my theme of making the most of your opportunity and your life, or, as I say, squeezing all the juice out. You can’t let the routine of life steal your time on Earth without even noticing.

Following is part of the description of Jerash in Wikipedia:

Jerash is the site of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River. Ancient Greek inscriptions from the city as well as literary sources from both Iamvichou and the Great Etymology establish the foundation of the city as being by Alexander the Great or his general Perdiccas, who settled aged Macedonian soldiers there (Γερασμένος-Gerasmenos means aged person in Greek). This took place during the spring of 331 BC, when Alexander left Egypt, crossed Syria and then went to Mesopotamia. It is sometimes misleadingly referred to as the “Pompeii of the Middle East or Asia”, referring to its size, extent of excavation and level of preservation (though Jerash was never buried by a volcano). Jerash is considered one of the most important and best preserved Roman cities in the Near East. It was a city of the Decapolis.

Jerash was the birthplace of the mathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (Greek: Νικόμαχος) (c. 60 – c. 120 AD).

Recent excavations show that Jerash was already inhabited during the Bronze Age (3200 BC – 1200 BC). After the Roman conquest in 63 BC, Jerash and the land surrounding it were annexed by the Roman province of Syria, and later joined the Decapolis cities

Standing in The Great Temple Of Zeus