Monthly Archives: May 2012

If you can imagine isolation in a desert, near a vast body of water from which you cannot drink, atop a 350 metre mountain, surrounded on all sides by Roman encampment, at the end of a three year seige, with … Continue reading →

We said good-bye to Jordan and hello to Israel this morning as we traveled the 200km from Petra to the Jordan/Israeli border. It was a quiet crossing through the razor wired gates, through no-man’s-land and into the Negev. Highway 90 … Continue reading →

The alarm rang at 3:15 a.m. And we were up, showered, dressed and waiting for the airport shuttle by 3:45. We picked up a half dozen other sleepy passengers and headed to Ben Gurion Airport for our flight to Eilat. … Continue reading →

There are some parts of our experience we cannot easily convey. They are the sounds and smells of the city. For instance, I write this from the courtyard garden of St. Andrews Scottish Guesthouse and we can hardly hear each … Continue reading →

It’s never a day like any other when one travels even though a person does some of the ordinary every day sorts of things. For example, we met a friend of our son’s for lunch. Pretty normal, right? Turns out … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you but I love discovering treasure. I met a woman last week who picked up a silver beaded charm after a Sunday morning service and after attempting to find the owner and could not, was tickled … Continue reading →

What’s in a name? When all else is lost, one at least has a name. Except if you’re Jason Bourne but that’s another story. Yad Vashem immortalizes the dignity of a name. “And I shall give them in my house … Continue reading →

The year was 1973 and the fledgling nation of Israel once again faced threat of annihilation by its Arab neighbours. Another war and another slim victory occasioned a national holiday. We know it as Yom Kippur. 6 short years later … Continue reading →