Israel 2019: Last Day

Welp, it’s finally here: our last day. And WHAT a day it was. First, I just dumped 70 more photos onto the Google Photos page. So…have at ’em. One of the highlights of the whole trip was today’s visit to Nazereth, Jesus’ home town, and it was grand. It was a mini-replica of all things […]

Days 7.25 and 8 [ish]

[Google Photos page updated] We started Tuesday with a morning hike up Mount Arbel, which provided amazing views of everything below. The group is continually struck by how people used to live – like climbing a mountain is NBD to them. People were used to their environment. We come in from America and wonder how […]

Israel Day 5 – Tombs

Today was Tomb Day – specifically the Garden Tomb and also the Church of the Sepulchre. Both of which are traditionally held to be the possible place where Jesus’ tomb is today…for different reasons. First the Garden Tomb. Such a beautiful and peaceful place. We took a time of meditation and prayer before going in, […]

Israel Day 4 – Jerusalem Part 3

OK, so. Google Photo page is updated…took lots of pics today, so be forewarned. We started the day by seeing some of the remnants of the original City of David and some of the artifacts. Why is that awesome? Welp, this is a pretty recent find and it is so awesome because they found things […]

Israel Day 3 – Jerusalem, Part 2

Google pictures UPDATED with today’s photo barrage. Back to Jerusalem! Today, we got dropped off in the Old City and basically never left all day. We walked from one side to the other – through all four quarters – Jewish, Christian, Aremian, and Muslim. Really the only way you knew where you were was by […]

Israel Day 1 – Allegedly It’s Tuesday

So…WOW. Direct flight from Newark to Tel Aviv is just over 10 hours…which in and of itself isn’t bad, but what is the challenging part is that you literally fly through time – we took off from Newark at 1:15pm Eastern time and landed in Tel Aviv at 6:00am the next day. Don’t ask me […]