The hot springs of northern Israel are one of the country’s least-popular sites for visitors. Understandably, most people who travel to Israel are interested primarily in visiting its hundreds of historical religious sites. These springs, though, with their healing qualities, are extremely popular with locals. Since I’ve already seen most of the religous and historical [...]

As I sit here listening to the sweet lullaby of a lawn mower, I’m reminded that springtime is lingering a little longer than usual here in northern Israel. Spring is short in this country, typically running from February through April. Aided by late season rains this year, its multi-colored hues are decorating the earth a [...]

The little city of Nazareth sits down inside a deep bowl-shaped area of land in northern Israel approximately midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Tiberias. I think it’s one of the most interesting cities in Israel, with its Christian sites and almost 100 percent Arab population. Just last year [...]

It is now Passover here in Israel. Like other Jewish holidays, I have heard of this particular holiday, known as Pesach in Hebrew. I believe back home in the U.S. it is marked in tiny print on calendars. When Pesach occurs in the States, I have never been remotely aware it is taking place. Now [...]

I am a nature liker, not a nature lover. But I swooned over and quickly fell in permanent love with northern Israel, an area saturated in pure natural beauty. Its rolling hills of dusty brown and deep green, its gracefully sloping deep valleys and its patches of tidy, multi-hued farmland, all interrupted only every once [...]

Northern Israel is absolutely the most gorgeous area on earth, in my eyes. Its almost neverending biblical sights located all across a bucolic countryside whose borders touch Arab nations which wish to destroy it gives this region of Israel a powerful pull that I can’t find anywhere else in the world. I think most people [...]

Sometimes words aren’t enough to explain why I love to travel. Since “a picture is worth a thousand words,” here a few to help describe why I love the world. Thumbnail suitcase photo by Heliotrop3

Escaping from daily life’s reality and routine into a cornucopia of newness and wonder is one of the many universal appeals of travel. Almost everyone on earth likes the excitement of new experiences. All of our hearts temporarily halt when we gaze with our own eyes at cathedrals, oceans and castles we’ve previously only seen [...]