I recently returned from an amazing trip to Israel—my old friend Davis let me tag along. After working in D.C. with it’s rich history and sites and after wearing out a passport for the last ten years, I am not easily impressed. Colin Powell, Newt Gingrich, and members of congress are big but not J.C. big. We are not talking J.C. Watts or Julius Caesar but the real J.C.
A person who slept through A.M.E. Sunday School has zero business visiting the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane, the Western Wall or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. When the guide said Jesus sat on this bedrock, I walked over there with wobbly legs and kissed that sacred ground.
The people of Israel are surprisingly diverse with a significant percentage of Muslims. I like a nation where almost 100% of the people are veterans. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are worth the serious airport security process. South Israel and Egypt will hopefully be in my travel future. Israel is something special so let’s hope the region can find a way to peacefully exist.
For my travel buddies, T.A. parties to the break of dawn and the women stunning. Ladies who can fire machines guns—my NRA friends would be in love.
- Mount of Olives in Jerusalem
- Western Wall
- Dome of Rock
- Davis, Ted and Errick the Driver
- Pita and Humus cafe
- Tel Aviv beach
- Old Jerusalem
- Gethsemane