Israel

So it’s been a number of months since I’ve been back. John asked me to make this little blog available to the public (I had written it for my family to keep them up to date on my [...]

Harod’s Palace to Church of the Holy Sepulcher to the Garden Tomb A half day of activity today since this is our last day here. We started off at Herod’s palace where Jesus’ [...]

Archaeological park to Southern stairs to the top of the Mt of Olives to the Pool of Bethesda to Gethsemane to the Western Wall (busy, eh?) I actually woke up at 5:30 am and realized that it was [...]

Mt Carmel to Caesarea to Jerusalem We started out today with a steep hike up Mount Carmel, site of Elijah putting the Baal priests to shame. It’s a tough climb to the top (thankfully the [...]

Capurnaum to Susita to Harod Spring to Nazareth First to Capernaum where Jesus made his home base during his ministry. It is a fantastic archaeological site with a synagogue, homes, all kinds of [...]

Mount Arbel to Bethesdia to Korazim to the Jordan River Started out strong today with what John said is the hardest hike of the trip – especially as the temperature was supposed to reach [...]

Bethlehem to a cave to Jericho to the Sea of Galilee Today we left Palestine to go to the Sea of Galilee. On the way we stopped at a typical cave where shepherds would be able to bring their [...]

En Gedi to Qumran to a Dead sea beach Today we hiked quite a bit and most of it was strenuous (some of our group couldn’t do it), so I loved it. We started off at En Gedi, an oasis in the [...]

Newark to Tel Aviv to Bethlehem Our flight was shorter than expected – about 10 hours. Unfortunately I couldn’t sleep a wink, so I ended up watching 4 movies. It’s interesting [...]

So I leave tomorrow for Israel. John says it’s a 5-movie flight (he measures flights in the number of movies you can watch). At 11 hours, as long as each movie is 2.2 hours long, [...]