In the spring of 2019, I led a small, informal tour of Israel. It included…
Category: Travelogues
In June of 2019, my mother, father, and I drove to Sioux Falls to embark…
My mother, father, and I returned to Hong Kong in late 2017, and then toured…
In the fall of 2016, I traveled to India, stopping in Dublin and London en…
I collected airline miles, hotel points, and free night certificates for an excursion to East…
Alaska is absurd: bears, moose, mammoth mountains, soaring pines, jagged peaks, water streaming past boulders, surging down valleys,…
In the summer of 2009, I devoted two weeks to the Sinai Desert. I loved…
As my impromptu quest approached the Balkan Peninsula, a foremost sensation arose: supreme serenity, divergent from Jerusalem, palpable nonetheless. Idyllic islands peppering the vast Aegean Sea, wrapped in pine, cedar, and olive. Fishing boats, catamarans, cruise and industrial ships, arriving and departing the port at Piraeus.
In May of 2009, my mother and I traversed France over 10 days. On our final day, at a Paris hotel, I perused cheap flights on the Internet, chancing upon a low-cost Belgian airline, Jetairfly, with one-way flights from Liege, Belgium, to Tel Aviv, for 99 euros.
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