Great TR -- thanks for taking the time to post.
FWIW, for all those who wonder about feeling skittish in a Muslim country, I'll add my experience: Wife and I took the kids (then 10, 8, 6) to Petra via taxi from Aqaba crossing back in 2010, so we have a little idea of what it's like to be in a Muslim country (though I recognize that Jordan is not Dubai, etc.). We were treated with respect and felt comfortable, not threatened at all.
Shabbat Shalom.