Author Archives: Joe

Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 8 Part 1, Thursday June 8, 2023

Today we went back into the Old City of Jerusalem. It was a busy day, with a lot of pictures, so I decided to break it into two posts: Part 1 and Part 2.…

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 7, Wednesday June 7, 2023

Today we headed south for a swim in the Dead Sea, with a couple of stops along the way.…

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 6 Part 2, Tuesday June 6, 2023

This is the second of two posts for our day in the Old City of Jerusalem. We pick up from the last post at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.…

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 6 Part 1, Tuesday June 6, 2023

This was the day we went to the Old City of Jerusalem. We did a lot, so I decided to break it into two posts: Part 1, and Part 2.…

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 5, Monday June 5, 2023

Today is our wedding anniversary! It’s also the day we said goodbye to Galilee and our Magdala Hotel and headed to Jerusalem, with some stops along the way.…

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 4, Sunday June 4

We started our day with Mass in the Duc in Altum Church at our hotel for the Feast of the Holy Trinity. Then we headed north to Tel Dan Nature Reserve in the Golan Heights. The Dan Stream, which …

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Day 3, Saturday June 3, 2023

The third day of our trip to the Holy Land started in Nazareth, Jesus’ home town, at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation. This is one of several different churches of the annunciation in Nazareth. In Jesus’ time there …

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Days 1 – 2, June 1, 2023

I changed my mind from what I wrote in the previous post, and decided to write about our Israel trip. It’s been a couple of months now, but it was such a memorable trip. Mary Ann and I keep talking …

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Trip to the Holy Land, June 2023

UPDATE: I changed my mind about not posting about the trip, and have written a post for each day of the trip. I also updated the maps to reflect our actual itinerary (which is different from what the original plan

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Portal, Arizona, April 12, 2023

This post is for the last stop on our trip to SE Arizona: the town of Portal. Portal is a small town in the Chiricahua Mountains that is popular for its birding, among other things. It was about a 1.5 …

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