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January 02, 2007
Signs of life outside of internet
[ UPDATE: A few visuals added. ]
Apologies if you posted a comment and it didn't get published for 24 hours. I was away from an internet connection for over a day and was not able to release a few comments from the oppressive imprisonment of my spam filter.
What was I doing? Hiking the trail to the top of Mt Yishay at Ein Gedi at 5 AM to see the sun rise over the Dead Sea on the first morning of 2007. (I didn't make it all the way to the top since I had only packed 2 tangerines and a Diet Coke for hydration and it got very sunny after 7:30 AM or so, and there was too much rock scrambling for both the shoes I had and my flabby calves and quads.)
(The blue is the Dead Sea; you can see the shoreline beyond the cliff. I'm pretty sure that bird is a raptor but I don't know what the species is.)
Then I picked up an ageing hippie at the Ein Gedi youth hostel and drove north to Tiberias, where I dropped her off as per request.
I went on to Tsfat, where I spent the night in a shabby and cheap hotel, being kept awake by the denizens of some high-school field trip, and today I again climbed up and down steep trails, this time stairs with cobblestones, avoiding hippie judaica shoppes as much as possible (Tsfat is Sedona with tzitzit.)
Then I drove for 3 hours to be at this blogger meetup in Tel Aviv. Got a bit too smart for my own good getting out of the mountains and ended up driving down some quaint Israeli back roads till I hit Rt 70 South. Then fought my way through Tel Aviv rush-hour traffic, guided by Dorothy via cell phone.
Current wifi courtesy of whoever Dorothy's apartment is in range of.
Pictures at 11.
Judith | 01/02/07 at 04:40 PM | Categories: Eretz Yisrael
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Comments
The bird might be a kite of some kind, but that's a guess.
Rob | January 4, 2007 09:46 PM
The Dead Sea area is a geological continuation of the African Rift Valley, and a major bird migration path. If I were a birder I would think I had died and gone to heaven.
Judith | January 5, 2007 04:50 AM
The Dead Sea area is a geological continuation of the African Rift Valley, and a major bird migration path. If I were a birder I would think I had died and gone to heaven.
Judith | January 5, 2007 04:50 AM
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