Today we did a whole lot of travel in the countryside, and a whole lot of political study. I haven't had to change my breakfast habit since the beginning of the trip, though here I've added a little to it. A bowl of corn flakes, a lot of eggs (usually at least three or four) since I find myself constantly craving protein and they don't have any ( Read more... )

I woke up in the morning to the sound of birds and the feel of the sun on my face - we had our balcony door open. We packed, I had a shower in a place with more water pressure than we have in Canada and this is a desert... It was a little better music than the canned Muslim call to prayer we heard the evening before, drifting across the valley from ( Read more... )

(This was written April 2nd ( Read more... )

The world is a narrow bridge
Do not be afraid to cross over

(Written April 1st, the first official day of the tour. I am currently in Tiberias, my first chance at the internet since Newark.)

I have no idea if there is any internet out here at all. I know there certainly isn't any in our hotel room, but trading the internet for the resort we're staying ( Read more... )

Food.

That's basically all I've been thinking about for the last little while.

Before I went on the trip, I ate bacon like every day. There's a longstanding joke among my friends that I could be Jewish if it weren't for the bacon, and it's a nearly accurate statement. But food had become a capital issue today, and I was willing to pay whatever it ( Read more... )

Someday I'm gonna find it
Wish I knew what I was looking for
Inside the disarray

With this many several-hour layovers, it's going to be like live-blogging my trip. Until sleep beckons, anyway.

I went to bed around 7am our time and my Aunt woke me to pack at about quarter to 11. Can't say I was all that surprised that people didn't let me sleep in until ( Read more... )