Final Comments About Our Trip to Israel

While there is more that could be written about our time in Israel, this covers the highlights of our trip.  We loved our time there and feel changed by the things we saw and experienced.  We could go back another time and fill our days with new and equally interesting sites; this country has so much to offer in the way of history.  While the travel has come to an end, the learning process is ongoing; and we reflect again and again on the places we visited and what makes them significant.

In closing, we wish to express sincere appreciation to our friend Matt Baker who organized this trip and guided us in an unofficial way throughout our many adventures, all the time teaching and sharing his tremendous enthusiasm for the Holy Land.  Without him we could not have done the things we did or had this type of a trip.

We also express appreciation to our friend Brent Walton, a professional photographer living in the Rochester, New York area, who took close to 5000 pictures during the 13 days we were gone.  It wasn’t until the trip was over that we realized how indebted we are to him for his tireless efforts in photographing every aspect of our trip and eliminating the need for us to carry a camera or worry about taking pictures individually at every stop.  Our trip will live on in our memories through the moments so skillfully captured through his photography.

The past 30+ posts have been written for family and close friends who wish to know more about our experience and possibly plan for their own trip to Israel.  We doubt we will ever be able to study the Bible in quite the same way again and are grateful we had this opportunity.