Adventure traveling

Traveling is still and adventure. I thought I ad planned it out, really I did. But I did not ask for help from the people on the other end, people I do not know, people I thought might be too busy. I underestimated the serious problem arriving on shabbat (sabbath) would be.

I hate the long flights but this year things were much much better. Traveling this year had a lot to do with waiting. April dropped us off at the airport. We got into an elite line, just our blessing. It meant we had to wait in the gate lounge for three hours. We got to Toronto only to find that the flight to Tel Aviv was delayed. We waited four hours. Then after a blessedly short 10 hour flight we arrived in Tel Aviv to the reality that the only way to the kibbutz would require a $250 taxi drive. The knew if we wait until after shabbat we can get a $15 bus ride directly there. But that require an 7 hour wait until shabbat is over.

So we took the taxi to the central bus terminal in Tel-Aviv. Then we waited outside for a couple of hours that seemed like more sitting out on the sidewalk. Few speak English and those that do are hard to understand. Thus I did know I could enter at least an hour before we did. Then it took us a while to realize that while the escalator was blocked the elevator worked up to the top floor where the buses were.

Barbara got the very bright idea that Tvias was the same thing as Tiberias in bus parlance. I asked a driver who after consulting with someone who spoke English replied "yes". So I warily got on with DW. We drove on an inerurban bus that stopped a lot to Tiberias. We stopped in a relatively large town called Afula (while I had never heard of). The next stop was Tiberias. I could hardly believe it. It took only 2:15 of while I dozed a lot. DW dozed at the bus station while I read. I finished my Doctorow book, "Ragtime" from leaving Houstonto waiting in the bus station. I gotta go soon so signing off. Probably tomorrow a review of Doctorow.