Let's see if I can capture a few highlights: Swimming in Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee to all you non-locals) at 6 in the morning; standing on an extinct volcano and looking off into Syria; standing on Mount Gilboa (where King Saul was killed... read 1 Samuel 31) and realizing the importance of the fact that the Philistines took Saul's body to Beth-Shean--I'm starting to process what I'm learning and draw conclusions, figure stuff out, and it's so cool; and hiking first down, then up these sweet cliffs in the Arbel pass. These field studies are so incredibly intense, I think I retain maybe 20% or something embarrassingly low, but I am learning and getting a general picture of what this land is about and I love it!
Tell Dan.
A big butt on the lake
Me being Indiana Jones, crawling into a cistern
Pretty flowers!
The Jordan River
The cliffs of Arbel
More Arbel
Completely ignoring a "Danger! Do not enter!" sign. There was a fairly recent rockslide behind the sign.
More Arbel... agin
The Mona Lisa of the Galilee (mosaic) which I like better than the original Mona.
Great-aunt Ruth who had a beard.
A cardo, a main north-south city road
Destruction! Caused by an earthquake that destroyed Beth-shean.
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