It’s Thursday, about 2 PM. We boarded the Auto Train yesterday afternoon for an overnight ride from Sanford, FL to Lorton, VA. We suspected that there was a problem when we awoke at 4 AM to find that the train wasn’t moving. When we got up this morning we found out that a freight train [...]
Archive for March, 2008
En Route
Posted in 1 on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Easter at the Beach
Posted in 1 on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rhea woke me up on Easter morning at about 6:30 to tell me there was a church service underway on the beach just in front of our motel room (Peter, Rhea’s brother, had gotten us the “best room in the house” for our Easter weekend visit). Sure enough, there were a couple of hundred people [...]
Naples (Florida, that is)
Posted in 1 on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We left RI on Saturday, drove to DC, had a wonderful visit and went to Palm sunday at the Washington National Cathedral. 2500 + people, a beautiful service, but not THAT MUCH nicer than ours! We took the Auto Train to Orlando, then drove 4 hours ehre to Naples, where we’re visiting our friends Don [...]
Headin’ South
Posted in 1 on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow we leave again, this time down the East coast. We drive to Pottstown, Pa. to visit Rhea’s sister, then on to DC on Saturday, where we’ll see our friend Catherine Bear, go to Palm Sunday services (probably at the National Cathedral http://www.cathedral.org/), then load on the Auto Train in Virginia for an overnight trip [...]
Photo Album
Posted in 1 on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To see a photo album of our trip, go to http://gallery.mac.com/revbobbrooks#100024
Reflection from our Friends
Posted in 1 on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I’ve said, poetry is how many find a way to reflect on these experiences. Linda Lyle Larson, a friend from Chicago who was in our group, wrote this: [...]
Home
Posted in 1 on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We traveled all told 24 hours yesterday. We were up at 6 AM Amman time (11 PM Friday night here in RI) and finally arrived home in Little Compton at 11 PM EST. Oops, time to spring forward to midnight! We’ll unpack and organize in the next few days, and I’ll try to make sense [...]
Jerusalem
Posted in 1 on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we were in Tulkarum and Nablus in the West Bank. Last night we returned here. After dinner we learned about the killing og 8 yeshicve students in Jerusalem. Today, to my surprise, with the exception of increases security forces (5000?), life goes on pretty much as usual. I just finished meeting personally with Naim [...]
Nazareth and the Galilee
Posted in 1 on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is where Jesus grew up, a mountain town of 70,000 today with views that, as Rhea says, Americans would DIE for. This area is in Israel, so the situation for Palestinians is slightly different from those who live in the West Bank, or Occupied Territories. Nazarath is a Palestinian town, but the government has confiscated [...]
Nazareth
Posted in 1 on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another amazing day. We went first to Taybeh (Ephraim), in Samaria, the place where Jesus stopped to rest and pray on his way to Jerusalem (John 11). This is the only totally (98%) Christian village in Palestine, with 1400 residents. As is always the case, it is ringed by Israeli settlements. As a measure of [...]
