Welcome back fellow sojourners! I hope you are blessed as you travel with us throughout the land of Israel. Today was filled only with sites, but what a day of siteseeing it was. Nothing in Israel is ho-hum! Though our hotel is on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, it was dark when we …
Continue reading Northward to Tel Dan, Caesarea Philippi, and the Golan Heights
Don't be confused...there is purpose behind that title! Today, we visited the Nova site brutally attacked by Hamas on October 7, 2023. It is a brutal gut punch to be on those grounds, particularly if you saw any of the footage of young people trying to flee the ravages of Hamas, yet having nowhere to …
Continue reading A Gut Punch Everyone Needs to Experience and an Experience Everyone Needs to Have
After such a huge opening day in Jerusalem, what could possibly top it? Indeed, tracing Jesus' footsteps to Calvary and the Tomb are huge, but Jerusalem is filled with other special treasures as well. And we aim to find them! Touring the Old City requires LOTS of walking and I think we squeezed every ounce …
Continue reading So Many New Sites and So Much Done to Existing Ones
A major airline incident made major news. A Flydubai aircraft with 174 passengers headed from Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Tel Aviv (Israel) veered significantly off course and eventually went dark. For a while the plane's location and condition was unknown, before finally reappearing on radar and landing safely at an airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia. …
