Tal Tel Aviv

... what else is out there.
Especially factoring in the exchange rate our money buys far more within our own borders than it does anywhere else, but even so our standard of living is higher than anywhere else I saw. The USA pays less than half as much for gasoline as pretty much the entire rest of the world. This is the land of giant cars, timid drivers, and mediocre-to-nonexistent public transportation. This country is an exercise in contradictions and hypocrisy: we rely on social ...

... a few walls. When I arrived at my youth hostel, the lobby was crowded with yelling students, and four guys sat at the reception downing Gold Stars and talking about nightclubs, until the guy behind the desk asked them to shut up just long enough for him to tell me where the showers were. I wound my way up through a group of screaming Australian girls, teetering atop four inch heels and grooming themselves in front of the only full length mirror in ...

... look at the sea and boardwalk, the matkot games still in full swing below. Surfers were washing off under the public showerheads, and a squirming puppy was getting cleaned off, too. 


After cleaning up, we headed on the spur of the moment to the gay community center in Gan Meir (Meir Park). (The cabbie misheard me, although he insisted he hadn't, and took us to Gan Ha-Ir (City Park) instead, prompting a whole re-negotiation of the cab ride and a stop at ...

... brother, sister. Every urge in my body would want to lash out. Think about the restraint these people show on a daily basis. I get ****** off when the cleaning ladies in my dorm hold the bathroom or kitchen hostage ... I can't even begin to imagine what this would be like.


So, next time you hear on the news that another suicide bomber struck, lets think about why. What happened to him/her to make them do this? The last thing I'm doing is condoning ...

... ready for passover. I think we are going to clean some more of the house because for passover you have to clean everything and get rid of all the crumbs from things. You have to clean the couches, floors, kitchen, bags, beds, EVERYTHING!! So we are taking it easy tonight. Tomorrow we are celebrating Ahuvah's birthday. We are going to a wine restaurant to have dinner then a few good glasses of Kosher wine. :) Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Allie

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It was mid-November when I received payment for the two weeks of landscaping/wood-gathering work I did. And I now had ten times as much money as I'd had upon arrival in Israel. I left pleasantly quiet Tzfat, a town I couldn't have standed to live in, because the religious girls there weren't fun. But, I still wasn't ready to go to my next, new country. Something about my time in Israel had been disappointing. Disheartening. I revisited Tel Aviv, and ...

... a quick bite before finding the Micra and pointing her toward Tel Aviv. The drive between the two cities was quite nice. It tales about an hour and can be completed on a small highway, much like PCH in California, that runs mostly along the very serene coastline that separates Haifa from greater Tel Aviv. After dropping off the car, Nina and I checked back into the Melody and made haste to the Neve Tzedek district so that we could catch a bit of shopping ...