Again we had to be packed and on the bus early today for our ride to Tel Aviv. It was another full day of touring. Ceasarea was Herod’s magnificent summer home. Awesome ruins helped us to see the extravagance of his life Mt. Carmel was where Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal. To be there and feel the story as it was being read was very moving.
Nazareth was Jesus’ hometown where he returned to announce his being the Messiah. After our visit we drove high up on the Precipice where his former friends tried to throw him off.
On the way back to Tel Aviv we stopped at Joppa where Jonah set off on his adventure with the fish and where Paul’s eyes were opened to his call to the Gentiles.
We stayed overnight in beautiful Tel Aviv, the largest and most secular city of Israel. In the morning we flew to New York, arriving at 4:30 in the morning. A couple of hours later we got into a small bus for a private tour of the Big Apple. It was a fun day of seeing the sites (Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Ground Zero) and of course, shopping.
By midnight we were on our final plane to fly home. We arrived at 4:30 Tuesday morning exhausted but fully satisfied.
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