Friday, April 23, 2010
Home again, Home again
It is a good to be home!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday on the Mediterranean Coast
Well, it's the end of a long day. We are getting worried about our return flight as it goes via London. I'll be calling the airline tomorrow, so keep us in your prayers!
At this point we've put our feet in the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee, and the Medierranean. We're thinking, if we have to, we may be adding the Indian Ocean and the Pacific onto our list of bodies of water - just to get home!
Monday, April 19, 2010
Our hotel is amazing. I've attached a photo which shows the view. We are surrounded by beautiful gardens and birds of all sorts of variety.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
The photo to the left is a picture of the "Treasury." You may recognize it from the 3rd Indiana Jones movie.
The people of Jordan are very nice. There are many Bedoin tribes still active and living in the area.

The ladies rode camels out of the city (for a fee of course). The men decided to walk out on their own. Good thing we traveled in a group of four! Enables us to be in two places at once!
We had a late lunch in a Jordanian restaurant which was a delicious buffet so we were able to try many different foods.
Then we returned back to our apartment for an early night!
Tomorrow we leave for Tiberius - Galilee. Long day on the road, but a great way to finish our trip!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
After the heat of Masada, we went to the Dead Sea. Although it is frightening at times to see what Europeans wear to the beach, the water was warm and refreshing. We were told to go in and lay back into the water - not to go in head first. Good advise. The salty water is so buoyant that I very quickly flipped from my back over to my stomach, got a few drops of that salty water in my mouth and doggy paddled back to shore. That was it for me! The rest of the group continued to enjoy the water and I watched and dried from shore. What a great place to people watch!
It was a long ride back to the hotel. And the traffic got heavier as we neared Jerusalem. Passing through Bethelehem, we saw several sheep herders and a few people riding donkeys to their own destinations. On the way to Masada we saw several dressed camels on the side of the road. we're not sure if these were country taxis or tourist traps! The one in this photo was a tourist trap at a gas station!