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You may remember me mentioning Mt Gilboa when we visited Gideon’s Spring.  Mt Gilboa is nearby to the spring.  This is the mountain above the valley where Saul and David met Goliath and the Philistines.  The exact place is not…

What a God-thing.  We only got to go to Mt Tabor because of the rain.  It really ended up being a special trip.  We left on the bus and could see the mountain as we approached. We drove through a…

This is our last day of touring, and whoa what a doozy!  We went to another place pastor had never been before.  First thing in the morning we went to the place I wanted to go to the second most.…

This area is where my screen-shot of my map was taken…way up north in the Golan Heights, almost to Lebanon and Syria.  This place was a place of massive pagan worship to the Roman gods, particularly the Roman god Pan.…

So if you remember way back to Tel Megiddo, the word “Tel” means that it’s an area that has been built up, one civilization on top of another.  In the case of Megiddo, it was 26 layers, one on top…

Day 10, again, was a bit slower paced, and we spent longer at our two destinations with more hiking involved.  Thankfully, I was feeling a bit better this day because we did some walking.  I think I ended up with…

Our guide for the hike extension, Eitan, had gone to live on a kibbutz when he turned 15.  The one he went to is on the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, and we happened to drive right by…

We get off the bus and enter the walkway down towards the Sea of Galilee…another site built right by the water. We are immediately greeted by peacocks and other migratory birds as we’re walking toward the spot where we will…

I was surprised by just how moving this place was for me.  When we were told where we were going, I thought it would be neat, but we really have seen a lot of ancient ruins by now, and they…