"Day 2
I don’t think very many people slept. This day began in the vicinity of the British Isles. Dawn wasn’t until just past Rome, and as we passed Greece, I had a conversation with a weird old lady to my left… it seems she liked reading classics and watching war movies, and had never been out of the country before. We landed at Tel-Aviv.
The airport was near the beach. Getting out was easy… just getting your passport stamped, and collecting bags. Then it was outside. The temperature was about 75-80 days: perfect. The three busses were right there; big red and white things that said, oddly enough, “Maya Tours” on the side. Our bags had tags that said “Canaan Tours” on them… and as we got on the bus, we were handed blue hats that said “Diesenhaus Unitours” on them… that was one puzzle I never figured out. But there were more interesting things going on.
Our guide, Amnon, introduced himself and carefully explained that even though our internal clocks probably though it was 1AM, we shouldn’t go to sleep because then we would stay up all night and be just as sleepy the next day. So I accepted the slightly dizzy feeling I’ve come to associate with exhaustion and ignored it."
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Kevin
Hello Kevin,
ReplyDeletegreat BLOG. greetings from Germany
Gus
Hi Kevin/Kenny;
ReplyDeleteGreat read. I remember all the spots well. Especially Hezekiahs tunnel. I was able to go through twice. The first time through we got stuck about a third of the way through for about a half hour. Some of our people were clautraphobic. Not a pretty seen, but quite interesting. We had to turn around and walk back out. I later found out that some Jewish high school girls had decided to stop and splash around in the water and backed up the whole place. The line was all the way back up to about half of the dry tunnel. I've got some excellent pics and ppts if you ever need any. I bought a CD set.