A vending machine that dispensed ribbed condoms, the Vibromax battery operated stimulator, and mints. When I saw this my first thoughts were, 'A condom machine, what the fuck?!, Oooo Mints!'

So every trip since Israel I have run into Jewish stuff in the countries I visited. I went to China and found a Jewish community center in Shanghai and I went to Ireland and walked to a cemetery in Cork and I saw a sign off in the old part that looked like it was written in Hebrew. I couldn't get all that close to the sign so I snapped a picture ( Read more... )

I'm going to a graveyard ( Read more... )

My trip so far ( Read more... )

We ate a fantastic dinner in Tel Aviv and then after some trouble at security we boarded a plane and came home. This is the end of the trip for me, since I wrote so much I am probably going to go back and clean up the grammar/typoes in this and compile it into one long story. Who knows maybe I'll find someone who would want to publish it ( ( Read more... )

Tel Aviv was our last major hurrah before we boarded the plane for America. We had free time there which I spent searching a market for unroasted coffee, being an ass to Brooke, and gabbing with Helaine before dinner.

( Tel Aviv, the quest for coffee )

Well after being forced to dinner I am still feeling sick as a dog but I at least don’t puke again (although I go to the bathroom thinking I need to). The rest of the night is spent talking to the Head Bedouin, communing with the kitties, and running from bugs, spiders, and other creepy crawlies of the desert.

( Bedouin's are funny people )

The Dead Sea might as well not have happened for me since by the time we got there I was the walking dead. Brooke tried to get me to go in the water and I told her firmly no, I walked in to the resort we stopped at, sat down with Izzy under the air conditioner and tried, and failed, not to puke. In the end I’m told we spent nearly three hours at ( Read more... )

Well it was made perfectly clear during Sunday’s hike that I would not have made it through 40 years in the wilderness, in fact I’m not sure I would have lasted 40 minutes after summer started. I started the day worrying about the rappelling which was, upon reflection, kind of fun. However by the very end of the hike I could feel my body starting ( Read more... )