Several months prior to our date of departure, I had already booked our flights, placed an order with a car rental company and made hotel reservations for our first month of the trip. By the time we had only one month left, pretty much everything, except for the bags themselves, was ready. We had my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘usa’
Home is Where
This post is about a campaign calling Israelis who left for the US to come back home. When we were traveling in the US, browsing Israeli websites from American ip addresses, the ads kept coming up. “Come back home before Abba turns into Daddy”. Abba being the Hebrew word for Daddy. They had several versions [...]
One hundred Days in the West
I think I finally nailed down our plan for next year’s big trip to the Western US and Canada. Whew, is all I can say. I just hope the actual journey isn’t as tiring as the planning! So, this is what I have so far – a big loop taking in the coast and the [...]
Thoughts About the World
It’s almost one week since our return to the Holy Land. With Independence Day behind us too, I look forward to a few weeks of blissful holiday-free routine. It might be the post-holiday reaction here, but I am trying to make our days as uneventful as possible now. Sure, friends and family come and go [...]
Obama and the Jewish Problem
Remember the old joke about “The Elephant and the Jewish Problem”? It has many variations, but the essence is the same. A group of people of various nationalities are asked to write essays about the elephant. Each brings his own perspective and national biases. In the versions I know, the French guy writes about the [...]
The American Dream
Well, it’s still a fantasy at this point, though growing more real as the days go by. Over the past couple of weeks, we’re getting serious about a trip to the US in 2009. I’ve never been to the US, and IsraeliDad only visited once, for a work seminar, so didn’t get to see too [...]
