On April 11, 1906, sixty Jewish families moved north from nearby Jaffa to the sand dunes of the Mediterranean to established a new community. A lottery was held to pair families with a building plot. Using sixty white shells imprinted with each family's name and sixty grey shells each showing the number of a single …
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Israel- Start Up Nation
My tour took me to The Israeli Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv and The Center for Israeli Innovation. Sorry but I need to use an idiom (all my books on writing frown on this). Here it goes, I was "blown away" by what I saw and learned there. Tel Aviv is called the Silicon Wadi …
India- Beneath the Colorful Sights,Women’s Issues
I'm a stubborn optimist. But maybe I carry it too far. I wanted so badly to bring back home a lovely picture of India and dispel the dirty, dark shadows that label this country. Three months later, a orange piece of twine remains on my wrist, tied there by a Hindu holy man as a …
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70 days, 7000 miles, Day 19
July 11, 2001 I'm in Montana, one of my original destinations for this trip. I'm going to do some serious fly fishing here. But the day started out bad because I couldn't find the place to get a National Parks Pass. I wasted a lot of time. Somehow things finally turned out. I kind of …
Hints for Women Travelers #1- Protect Your Spirit from Violent Media
We live in a culture where violence is considered entertainment. I won't watch dark TV shows or movies anymore. If I did, I'd see the world as a hostile place and probably would not travel alone. I would lose my trust in the goodness of humanity,believing everyone had the potential to hurt me. In 2001, …
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The Autonomous Traveler 