Today the king of Saudi Arabia visited Jordan. Even if you didn't have access to television, radio, or any of the newspapers you knew he was in town; every major road was shut down. Public and private transportation ground to a halt and no one seemed to know when things were going to open up again—not the hundreds of people sitting in the shade of the bus stops or the scattered, not the policemen, and not even the rifle toting soldiers. A short trip of 10 miles to the neighboring town of Zarqa' took almost three hours as we had to walk two miles before reaching an open road and then waited another 10 or 15 minutes until an empty cab came by.
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