Mizpe Ramon, Israel

... the way.   Plan was to steadily work our way north through the Negev to a dimension-defyingly huge megacrater called Makhtesh Ramon (this means "big-um Roman crater"). This geological phenomenon is 40 km long and 2-10 km wide. It's not a volcanic ...

... 100 feet high or more out of a cliff-face I think they said was 2000 feet high. The guidebook had a funny mix of "Israel's Grand Canyon" and stories about soldiers leaving their Uzis in a corner of a restaurant so they could dance on Tuesday nights. We ...

... . We press on, past Sde Boqer (where Israel's George Washington, David Ben-Gurion, retired) and Dimona (most famous for having Israel's nuclear reactor--that must have been what we saw in the distance a mile from the fence along the road, where signs ...