While Matt was away, I did manage to do some fun things too! But first, some back story…When I woke up my first day in the Cal Poly dorms to a dying rooster alarm clock, I knew I’d met a special friend!  “COCKaaaaaaDOOOOoooooDddlllllDDDDoooooooo”. Alissa was my first and best roommate!  She grew up on a…

Last Saturday Josh was not feeling well so I took a solo trip to the Judean Hills to hike in the Sataf Forest. I was originally looking for a place to go trail running, which brought me to this site… http://www.irunfar.com/2014/03/trail-running-in-israel.html … which brought me to this site… http://www.trekkinginisrael.com/ … which finally brought me to this site… http://www.trekkinginisrael.com/sataf-to-yad-kennedy-on-the-inl/ ……

Last Friday (i.e. the weekend) I had a lovely day walking around the city and visiting the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Walking in Tel Aviv is fantastic due to the high number of pedestrian walkways with beautiful trees (see below), bocce ball courts, coffee stands, lots of dogs (and not just small dogs many have full grown huskies!), cats,…

So as some of you may have noticed, Matt’s doing all sorts of cool stuff without me!!  What the heck!?  Well, I thought it might be fun to give you a glimps into my home life while Matt’s gone…. I’ve learned some valuable things about myself over the past month … Mainly that I truly…