Well, I’m back in the US now. At the moment, it’s 6:11 AM on Sunday morning. Obviously, I’m not over jet lag yet, since I woke up about 4 AM this morning and couldn’t fall back asleep. So I’m using the quiet time in the dark to catch up on stuff on my laptop.
My work week ended on Wednesday, because the whole office was having Thursday off for a surprise activity of some kind. So I used Thursday to do some sightseeing. I visited the old town of Akko, then drive to the Sea of Galilee, wandered around an ancient ruined Jewish town that’s now a national park, drove around the “sea” (which we’d probably call a “lake”), and had lunch at a cafe on the east shore at a place called “Cafe -200” because it’s at -200m elevation. After that, I drove to a baptismal site on the River Jordan, then north to Tiberias (namesake of James T. Kirk, I think – the “T” stands for Tiberias), and then visited the historic (and pre-historic) site of Megiddo. Megiddo was pretty cool, and is the location of Armageddon (which is a corruption of “Har Megiddo”). After that I drive to the airport and started my long and arduous plane trip home.
I eventually got to Denver Friday morning, about 24 hours after I left Tel Aviv. Since then I’ve been watching a lot of TV, getting over jet lag, and catching up on bills, mail, etc.
It’s good to be back.