Category Archive for 'Israel'

Hello! Well, the blog isn’t dead, yet. After returning to Denver last summer, Jen and I returned to our previous jobs. We bought a home (something about staying in a different place every other night), now own a dining room table and patio furniture, but honestly, the most luxurious item is still our very own [...]

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Freedom. We rented a car for the last week, paid $7.50 a gallon in gas, and enjoyed a little bit of the ensuing freedom a car provides. I suppose I just cannot escape the American in me.
We meandered along in our egg-sized Fiat Punto through the banks of the Sea of Galilee and [...]

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Jerusalem: Israel or Palestine?

We’ve come across a few no-brainer business opportunities since we started traveling nine months ago. The first was in China. With the incessant construction, we envisioned ourselves getting gloriously rich opening a business in cranes and scaffolding. Here in Israel, the same is true of fencing, security perimeters, barbed wire, and concrete walls.
In all seriousness, [...]

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Jerusalem, Israel: A Holy Easter Week

The sun rose over the Garden Tomb this morning as we joined an international crowd to celebrate this Easter day. Christians and the curious from all over Europe and Russia, from Indonesia and Nigeria, from North and South America, and from Israel and Palestine converged in a beautiful garden surrounding one supposed location of Jesus’ [...]

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