Travels with Valerie

Today we went over to Jaffa, which is the old part of Tel Aviv. Jaffa has been a port area for about 4000 years, whereas Tel Aviv was founded in 1909. I’ll post a few pictures of Jaffa below but first you need to see this recycle bin. It’s nice and full, but not as […]

It’s hard not to feel sorry for Ron. Sure, he’s in Israel, but today was a free day before our tour starts tomorrow and so I routed us out to a few sites that interested me without any regard for his interests. First, we wandered through Carmel market, just down the street from our hotel. […]

Well, we made it! Yesterday we went from Seattle to Paris to Tel Aviv. While we were sitting around in Paris, I happened to check CNN and saw that an “escalation” had occurred here in Israel while we were en route from Seattle. It was a little distressing to be boarding a flight to Tel […]

Each trip I take presents unique challenges. Sometimes I’m stymied by logistics – like transfers that don’t go well, leaving us to haul our luggage while I stare at the GPS. Sometimes the issue is drivers that bring extra passengers along on private rides to try to sell us jewelry or my failure to rent […]