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 [...]

Today began with an eary wake up call at 4 am… I’m not sure if I woke up or ever went to sleep. Cairo and Egypt was a whirlwind or should I say a sandstorm? Something you don’t think about or at least I never have was how to clean a building after a sandstorm. [...]

The first full day of sightseeing was a wonder to behold-literally. Of the seven wonders of the ancient world, only one is still surviving - The Pyramids of Giza. They are a lot closer to the city then I expected. We had maybe driven 15 minutes from our hotel and I happened to look out [...]

After a day and a half of flying we made it to Cairo. The flights were very good and suprisingly not boring. The longest flight from Washington to Vienna went through the night. I was able to sleep a little but didn’t feel the need to sleep more.
The plane had a very cool personal entertainment [...]