Sorry for the delay. Our Kibbutz on the Galilee charged a little much to justify using the internet.
Now in Jerusalem, it is free.
After landing at 7:30 AM at Ben Gurion outside of Tel Aviv we were immediately met by our tour guide Avi. He promptly began cramming knowledge into our heads. We went to the ruins of Caesarea and Herod the Great's palace on the Mediterranean. We were then given the opurtunity to swim in the Mediterranean. I am really looking forward to spending 6 months living on the Mediterranean in Alexandria.
We stopped by Megiddo on our way to a Moshav (agricultural community) in the Northern part of Israel. We were hosted by one of the families at their farm for a home cooked meal. It was delicious but at this point we had been up for far too many hours. We checked into our Kibbutz on the Galilee around 10PM. Israel is 7hrs ahead of US Eastern time zone.
A few general thoughts on Israel: It is quite a feeling to realize that I am walking in the land where so much history took place. History, that was influential to the world even thousands of years later. Israel is like a mix between New Mexico and the Black Hills of South Dakota. In one moment it can be the quintessential 1st world country but also a 3rd world country. More to come.
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