(Thursday, July 19th: Touring: Caesarea / Mt. Carmel / Megiddo / Mt. Precipice / Canna Bypass. Travel to Tiberias and check in to Caesar Hotel.)

Up at 6:00 AM, shower, pack and get downstairs for breakfast. I ate my food while waiting in line and I was finished by the time I got to my table. Good choice; the bus was leaving for Tiberias in five minutes.

The breakfast buffet was wonderful (you might get used to hearing marvelous and wonderful used a lot in this blog). My wife, Sandy, would have gone crazy. So many fruits and veggies along with sushi and good ol' American breakfast items.

Then we're off for the day's touring. Two things I never do when I travel: Check my watch and ask how hot it is. Time doesn't really matter (unless you'll die of a missed medication) because it's the tour leader's responsibility to get you places on time and you can't change the temperature so why ask. Just so you know...it was blooming hot.

First stop was Caesarea and then on to Mt. Carmel, Megiddo, Mt. Precipice and Nazareth. I won't get into the details of each place so I encourage you to look these up in your Bible. All were beautiful and had great meaning to Jew and Christian alike. Our tour guide is from New Zealand and lives in Jerusalem. She has been an absolute delight. (Burt mentioned she's about the best he's seen and he's been to Israel fourteen times so we are fortunate.)

I'm uploading a bunch of pictures and hope to have some captions but don't hold your breath.

Our hotel in Tiberias is very nice. You'll see the view when you view the photos.

And, I bumped into Carol Weber. We're on the same bus but we didn't know it until we were half done in Caesarea. Go figure.

Tomorrow's a full day so I'll keep uploading photos and write tomorrow. Love to all.

Pastor Chris