“Well… that’s kind of a famous thing…”
** ORIGINALLY POSTED: 30 Mar 2008 ** We returned to Israel on Thursday the 20th – crossing back across the desert and to the King Hussein bridge. Through many of…
Definitely not in Kansas anymore, Toto…
** ORIGINAL POST: 29 Mar 2008 ** Well, I’m not from Kansas – I’m from Alabama – but this is definitely the furthest from home I’ve ever been. I don’t…
Dead = fun…
** ORIGINAL POST: 27 Mar 2008 ** The Jewish historian Josephus wrote these infamous lines said by Roman general Flavius Silva after the fall of the Masada fortress during the…
“You took that better than I ever would have…”
** ORIGINALLY POSTED: 27 Mar 2008 ** Palm Sunday in Nazareth, Israel. This just doesn’t happen… people just don’t spend a week in Israel in this time of the year.…
In unoccupied territories to “occupied” areas…
** ORIGINAL POST: 26 Mar 2008 ** The next day, we left our little bungalow cabins by the Sea of Galilee to drive up north to the area made famous…
Happy Easter… from where it all happened…
** ORIGINAL POST: 23 Mar 2008 ** Happy Easter everybody… It is quite something to be in Jerusalem on Easter. This is my last night here and I return to…
After a long wait…
** ORIGINAL POST: 20 Mar 2008 ** Okay… Sorry for so long without word… our power was out again in Greece the last night and I wasn’t able to get…
“Only 30 minutes!” …and three hours later…
** ORIGINAL POST: 12 Mar 2008 ** I have been in Greece 54 days – March 9 makes it exactly half-way. By this point in this adventure, we all know…
Being tireder… and… tired…
** ORIGINAL POST: 8 Mar 2008 ** And to continue the previous post… …to catch you up: we’ve seen quite a bit in Milan – the Pinacoteca Ambrosina and the…
Being older and wiser for it…
** ORIGINAL POST: 7 Mar 2008 ** Its been a while since the last post… A lot can happen in a week’s worth of growth on a guy’s beard. Last…