After being back for awhile I thought I would post some non “jet-lag-induced” thoughts on the trip. It’s an interesting phenomena that one tends to go through after a mountain top experience. There is this weird feeling of sadness, joy, relief, longing, and unexplained feelings all wrapped into one. I am so [...]

Whew! We made it. The posts have not been as consistant due to a sketchy internet connection. The past 2 days were spent in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. By this point everything is starting to belend together and I am dreaming of rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Oh, and olive trees [...]

Normally when I go on trips I can’t wait to get back to my own bed. The hotel beds are not that comfortable. I can’t really say that this trip. The beds have been awesome! But its not that the beds are different, I am just so tired that I probably [...]

It is an interesting thing to look on a valley where there has been so much history yet the greatest history has yet to happen. We visted the Jezreel Valley today where the battle of Armagedon will be fought. Looking down upon it, it is easy to see why so many battles have been fought [...]

It seems like each day keeps getting better. And today was no exception. I have made a lot of new friends on this trip. There are 46 of us in our tour group and we are growing closer each day which is a really cool thing. One of the people I have become friends with [...]

We left Jordan today en route to the Sea of Galilee. We stopped at a Greek Orthodox church to see the oldest existing map of the Holy Land. It was a mosaic laid into the floor around 600 a.d. I wore sandals today and ending up taking them off as the walk [...]

We crossed the border into Jordan today. We are only a couple hundred miles from Iraq. That is a sobering thought, and as Dr. John said “I have never felt so far from home.”
In spite of that, I had the best experience of the tour yet. We had the opportunity to tour the ancient city [...]