Today I am flying to Israel. I will be keeping a blog to chronicle my adventure and this is its introduction. If you know anything of my trip last year to Morocco you know that I took some displeasure in traveling amongst a large pack. This year’s trip is nearly the opposite. I’ll be traveling with an old friend who has done significant traveling and living abroad herself, so I don’t expect any of the same problems I encountered last year. Also, Sarah knows full well if she insists our next hostel must be one that supplies hair dryers to the guests or if she asks that we spend an extra day somewhere so we can do some extra shopping that I will kick her out of the car and leave her in the middle of the desert. And I would expect the same from her if I made similar requests. We have a mutual understanding that we’ll do whatever we can to see and do the absolute most that is squeezable in to our ten days in Israel, sleep and creature comforts be damned.
We have an open-ended itinerary, to say the least. We’re landing in Tel Aviv tomorrow, we’re leaving from Tel Aviv in the wee hours of March 13th, and we hope to be in Jerusalem by March 8th at the latest. The time and space between those events will be filled with whatever we come across. We’re renting a car in Tel Aviv and driving ourselves around the country in a clockwise loop, including a drive through the West Bank. We know a few sites we’d like to see along the way but we have no real plan.
I just realized we have no real map, either.
Appropriately then, the name of the blog, “Voglenish,” is a Yiddish word that means wandering or roaming. (Not forty years in the desert worth of roaming, but roaming nonetheless.) It seems that you can’t go very far in Israel without walking into something historic or significant so I don’t think we’ll have a shortage of meaningful encounters, even without a real plan to speak of. If you have any bright ideas, we’re all ears.
I’ll try to post often and include lots of pictures. Enjoy.
We have an open-ended itinerary, to say the least. We’re landing in Tel Aviv tomorrow, we’re leaving from Tel Aviv in the wee hours of March 13th, and we hope to be in Jerusalem by March 8th at the latest. The time and space between those events will be filled with whatever we come across. We’re renting a car in Tel Aviv and driving ourselves around the country in a clockwise loop, including a drive through the West Bank. We know a few sites we’d like to see along the way but we have no real plan.
I just realized we have no real map, either.
Appropriately then, the name of the blog, “Voglenish,” is a Yiddish word that means wandering or roaming. (Not forty years in the desert worth of roaming, but roaming nonetheless.) It seems that you can’t go very far in Israel without walking into something historic or significant so I don’t think we’ll have a shortage of meaningful encounters, even without a real plan to speak of. If you have any bright ideas, we’re all ears.
I’ll try to post often and include lots of pictures. Enjoy.
