Romania?!  Yeah, that’s what I said when Matt suggested it – what the heck is in Romania?!  Well…..MOUNTAINS and TREES, of course!!  And while we enjoy everything the deserts of Israel have to offer, as children of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, we were in dire need of a mountain fix! When we set out in search…

Several weeks ago after our tour of the sea caves of Rosh Hanikra, Kelley and I traveled into the Golan Heights of Israel, which is nestled on the border with Syria and Lebanon (Kelley: and much safer than that sounds). Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six Day War in 1967 but…

I have officially been home a little over a month and concluded there is no easy way to sum up my time in Ghana.  The contrast between the different worlds of Ghana, Israel, and the US are so vast, it is often hard to believe they all exist within a (long) plane flight of each other. After…

Over the last few weekends Kelley and I explored some new beaches in Israel. The first one was Hof HaBonim, which came highly recommended and is apparently one of Israel’s best kept secrets. The HaBonim Beach is a protected nature reserve and over the centuries has been sculpted by wind and waves creating an undulating…