Bethlehem Hotel

... SHe once got locked in her own atick with no one home. She escaped by eventually climbing onto the garage rafters and jumping down on top of her car!<br><br>The most intriguing story she told was of meeting a woman whose name I can't remember - we'll call her June.<br><br>Margaret was on a plane into Newark and had a layover in Vancouver. June was at that layover and they found they were on the same flight ...

... retrofit my bike with some S&amp;S couplers so i can fit my bike into a 62 linear inch suitcase. Which means i don't have to pay extra for taking my bike on planes with me. Brett and I both just got new sets of front and rear ortlieb panniers and brooks b17 saddles. Unfortunatly i don't think either one of us has broken the saddle in completely yet so we will see how that goes. I have been off my bike now for ...

... Had ik verder al verteld dat Bethlehem pal naast de woestijn ligt..? Dus toen het opeens heel hard ging waaien, was het net een sneeuwstorm, en moest Nona met lens-attack en al van de berg af geleid/gedragen worden. Daarna reden we naar Ozman's huis, ook boven op een bergje. Daar ontmoetten wij zn vrouw Rauba en zn familie. Die bleek uit ZEVEN kinderen te bestaan! Ze waren helemaal niet op ons voorbereid, maar op zn arabisch super gastvrij en lief. De kinderen keken ...

... was planning a 7:30 show.<br><br>But no worries, we just tidied up a few things, and were ready on time. It was actually a blessing, because that meant that we could leave that school a half-hour earlier than we thought and have a comfortable time buffer to travel an hour to our next school that day. Perfect.<br><br>We regretted having to leave that school in such a hurry ...

I have a break in my trip until I leave for my two months of adventure on August 30th. A tiny detail called work is in the way this week but it gives me some time to plan the next leg of my trip after Central America. I start up again with a flight to Prague and then some exploration in the Balkans. The former Yugoslavia and all of the new countries that formed out of its wreckage interest me and I am curious to see how they have evolved since the ...

... as you can sustain yourself by occasionally stopping to pick fresh, sweet grapes, glistening purple and warm from the sun. I have mastered the art of mixing cement as we are filling up the gaps in the stone walls for the theatre. I also now know hoe one goes about digging a water cistern as I spent a few days helping to finish off the work of the German volunteers who spent three weeks down the hole, making it deeper. That was probably the most strenuous but, ultimately, most ...

Recently, our "road trip budget" has fallen short. Since the cost of living went up, and the salary didn't we had to cut out some of the more expensive trips (expensive for us, basically if it&#8217;s more then $50 for all four of us, we&#8217;re not going) but we still manage to find places. The problem we are facing is when it&#8217;s a rainy day.<br><br>This week we went to see the world&#8217;s largest model railroad in Northlandz in Flemington, NJ ...

... using my language. Though I guess it is useful to have a lingua franca, sometimes I wish it wasn&#8217;t my own. Still, makes me even more determined to eventually solidify one of my bitty other languages into something fluent. <br><br>Though not a particularly immersive Arabic environment, my main aim for this trip &#8211; in terms of the language &#8211; was simply to get a feel for it being used in a real environment and give me some context for studying it. I am really enjoying being ...

... was flash my passport, I didn't even have to open it and they let me through. No questions asked. Not so easy for Palestinians- they have to show a bunch of papers and scan their hand before they can be let into Bethlehem. On the other side of the wall we were now in Bethlehem. There were lots of taxi&#8217;s waiting for people who go through and need a ride. To get back to Jerusalem do the opposite.<br><br>Shepherd&#8217;s Fields-<br><br>When Jesus was born ...

... taxis). We took one into Jerusalem and I gazed out of the window awash with the surreality of it all. Those first steps off the plane really impressed upon me a feeling of how unnatural flying is. That I could be walking on Middle Eastern soil within the space of merelt five hours felt like such a bizarre concept that I still couldnt fully comprehend that I was where I was.While I have previously found purely excitment in this ability to jump with such ease across the globe, I now cant ...