We all were to get breakfast and then leave at 10 AM. Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant downstairs, a nice buffet spread. As we’re eating breakfast, word spreads quickly that Stef went home with the guy she was ‘enjoying’ last night at Clava–but never returned. The collective nervousness […]
Mid-day…on the bus…heading somewhere. We’ve just got out of the cactus farm and Devin has nearly lost his sunglasses again. He’s brought an expensive pair of Persol sunglasses that he has been nervously worrying about since day one–what a mistake. He’s left them in my room before, and he’s dropped them […]
I’m on the bus staring out of the window as we make our way to Tel Aviv from Haifa. We just rode up to the top of Mt. Giboa, where we did some cliff rappelling and extreme jeep driving. We wake up at 7 AM and have breakfast. The same […]
Stooped over, sweaty, and with a burning headache do I find myself sitting here on the stoop out front of my room. I’ve finally found my pen, hiding somewhere on the ground. Last night I wrote while smoking cigarettes with some people, and the pen must have slipped out of […]
Shabbat, that centerpiece of Jewish life. It marks the seventh day of the Jewish week and the period of rest. For observant Jews it also means a period of not using electronics or doing anything related to work. This goes as far as not ripping toilet paper squares–single square dispensers […]
0700. I’m woken up by my roommates Omri and Andrew. A nice Israeli breakfast spread is waiting for us in this multi purpose room on the kibbutz. “Eat a lot! You won’t get to eat again for a while!” shouts Mickey. I ate eggs and some Israeli assorted salad items, […]
I sit beside Devin. I keep trying to write ‘Ari’ because he looks a lot like Ari. He was really tall and pretty much needed both seats for his legs. Felt bad to make the guy crunch in his seat, but it was whatever. We chat and eventually reach the […]
It was 5 A.M. when we got in and I could smell the desert air as I walked off the plane. It’s always interesting how you can sense the different air. It smelt like sand. Deplaning complete. Getting across the border was a joke. We got our shit off the […]
June 17th, 2015 I’m sitting here in seat 37E on this 767 from Heathrow to Tel Aviv. The time is 22:10 GMT. I started my journey at 13.00 GMT -8, so 21.00 GMT on 06/16. Almost 23 hours of travel now. I have met up with my group of about […]