How can I be in my late twenties and never have used an ATM? I’m not sure what this says about my spending habits—good things I hope. But I had blithely read in all the tourist manuals when they told me to skip the airport currency exchange. They said you could get better rates at Tel […]
Israel Observations
Best Travel Advice
There are two responses we get telling people we’re going to Israel for three months. The first one is, “So what will do you there?” The second is, “Oh, I’ve been to the Holy Land. You have to go see/hear/eat…” followed by a travel guide’s worth of suggested locations that would overwhelm even Joshua’s itinerary […]
Going To Canaan’s Land
It wasn’t in the top ten—not even the top fifty—-of places I wanted to visit. But next month, we’re going to Israel. I want to go to Israel. Because of a painting. I was full of plans to go to Asia or South America or back home to my birthplace, Australia. I thought someday it […]
