Phoenicia

My 6-day trip right before Hurricane Irene hit the area.

The voyage of a life time, crossing the blue seas of the Atlantic Ocean on the Phoenicia.

I thanked my lucky stars that the route from Phoenecia to Ulster Park was hugely downhill since I was miserable from my cold and it rained the entire last hour of my ride.  Take note - the campground where I pitched my tent on the bank of the Esopus ...

... managed to get the name of their hotel. Which was full. So after some searhcing and many miscommunications we found another hotel, Hotel Phoenicia. We bargained for a pretty nice room and got the price down to 10,000XOF. Four of us shared one bed, a ...

Phoenicia ...

... the ancient temples.  The Greeks then nestled in around 700 BC. They hung around for about 100 years then left and the Phoenicia traders came in.  The Phoenicia came from the area we now know as Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Isreal. They were ...

... .   Image of Carthage harbor:  http://klio.uoregon.edu/im/rr/carthage/Carthage Harbor.jpg Map of Phoenician Mediterranean:  http://www.edmond-hakmeh.com/Tourism/History of ...

... caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. It is one ...

... attributed to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan war Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, it was built by Cronus as the first city in Phoenicia.[1] Today it is believed by many to be the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. The name Byblos is ...

... while I was riding, but at the end of the day, I was beat.  There was one killer hill about 15 miles out of Phoenicia, followed by such a fast and long downhill, I had to put on my jacket when I started shivering from losing so much heat.  ...