Shalom my friend. Thanks for the memorable time in Italia. I don’t know how you do it. So much for the money! The restaurants, the entertainment, the great tour guides, etc. I got much more for the money than I paid. It surpassed what I have expected. I’ll never forget you or the people I spent time with in Italia, the great restaurants, food and everything. You are the greatest my friend!
Hi Elisha,
Shalom from an Israel/Petra traveler from Brown Deer United Methodist Church. We had an awesome trip!!!! It was fantastic and I would love to go back some day. I feel it was more of an overview of the country. I really want to go back and slow down and spend more time taking it all in. I know in a tour group it is necessary to go, go, go. I did like that, but I would like to go again and slow things down. My daughter and I just had the best time. I am so glad that we experienced it together. Petra was wonderful. I am SO glad that you made the arrangements for us to have another night there. It would have been a real disappointment not to have had the full time there. We were able to experience “Petra by Night”. It was a walk by candle light through Petra. We had a small concert by Bedouin musicians. Excellent experience. THANK YOU THANK YOU.
I am also so unhappy about the recent violence in Jerusalem. I feel such a close association after only having been there for 12 days. There was not a moment when I felt unsafe or in harms way while I was in Israel. We were treated so kindly and felt so welcome. It is unimaginable that such violence and hatred can exist in such a warm and beautiful place.
Thank you for taking the time to plan such a meaningful and wonderful experience.
Elisha & Merle,
Thanks so much for once again organizing and providing us with another great trip to the Holy Land. In addition, the Farewell Dinner was fabulous. Thank you also for encouraging us to choose the Kfar Blum for our stay in Galilee. It was great and, also, a privilege to see the place in which you grew up.
Our group was thrilled with the trip! They had no complaints whatsoever. They were extremely complimentary about everything and said it was “more than they expected”.
Thank you again for your hard work on behalf of our group. It is a pleasure working with you.
Shalom,
Dear Elisha and Merle,
Priscilla and I surely enjoyed our Israel tour, though it took us a week to recover from jet lag! I enclose a resume’ of what I remember. We will consider another trip, but probably not in ’09. Priscilla is part Gypsy, I think, for she saves her Social Security money and periodically says to me “Let’s go!” We’ve been to Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Bahamas, Alaska, and 37 of the 48 continental United States. In addition, Ken visited several foreign ports while a US Navy sailor in 1960-’64.
My early childhood was somewhat like yours, Elisha. I was born and raised in a town of 20 families in New Hampshire. My Dad was a woolen mill worker in the 1940s and 50s. Working to support a wife and 8 children took so much of his time that I saw little of him. Then, when I was age 10, he was laid-off from the mill, which closed, and he became a “handyman” in the area, with his two eldest sons Rodney and Kenny (me) often “pitching in” to help. It was “tough-sledding” from then on. We became poor, but we children didn’t know it, for we had enough. We raised most of our food, and enjoyed games of marbles, baseball, ice skating, etc., so we were plenty busy. Summer Saturdays Rod and I would often walk five miles to town to enjoy Saturday afternoon movie matinee for 25 cents, then collect pop bottles beside the highway to sell at 2 cents each, so we could go again. I’m a Vietnam vet, so I know something about danger.
Thanks for being great hosts!
Sincerely,
Thanks for the unbelievable tour of The Holy Land. I came back a different person, The Bible reading is much more meaningful, and I had so much fun!! My husband is WITH JESUS, I had the opportunity to be where Jesus was born, lived, taught, was crucified and resurrected. How great is that!!
In Christian love, with prayer,
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