Career Israelites

In case you haven't heard, for Pesach break, we it was decided that we should hike from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret). Other ideas were tossed around... spending the week at a resort in Eilat... taking a cruise to Cyrpus... but we settled on hiking Yam L'Yam (Sea to Sea).

It was an amazing experience, and I want you to get the full play-by-play complete with Julie-Commentary. That might take a few days (seeing as the 80(+3)kilometer (50ish mile) hike took us 4 days and 4 nights). 

Just a quick look at our hike

In the meantime, I don't want you to go without a post. So I have decided to create a post just like the game we played while hiking. You know that game "I'm going on a picnic, and I'm bringing..." and you go through the alphabet? Of course you do. Well, ladies and gentlemen... without further adieu...


I'm Hiking Yam L'Yam, and I'm Bringing...
A - Aspirin
B - Band-aids for the many, many blisters
C - Camelback water spigots (best purchase - besides the bag itself) (the hose attached to our water bottles - see "L")
D - Dried fruit - to counter the effects of matzah
E - Endurance
F - Flashlight (a headlamp is preferable)
G - Grill for the Arsim picnic
H - Halva - finally! it's socially acceptable for me to eat that much halva in one sitting
I - Israelis - without them... I'm not sure we would have... survived
J - Junk food (ok, just kosher for Pesach chocolate/candy that melted on the first day)
K - Kilo of tuna (in oil... if you insist)
L - Liter (4-6) of water / also Lametayel - the hiking store that sponsored our trek
M - Meat sticks / Meat batons
N - Nutella
O - One-ness with nature (aka Open-Defecation)
P - Privacy (See "O")
Q - Questioning why we did this and if we will survive
R - Rope... the cliffs were scary high
S - Sunscreen
T -  Tevas and Tents (according to the only non-Israeli who slept one night without a tent, Molly said she felt like a wet dollar bill when we woke up feeling like a million bucks (but did we?))
U - Underpants
V - Very.Sore.Muscles.
W - Wet Naps x1000 (aka Baby Wipes... if it's good enough for a baby, maybe you won't get boonda asada)
X - Xerox of the itinerary (so it's not the blind leading the blind out here...)
Y - YAM! (from the Mediterranean to bring to the Kinneret)
Z - Zinc (you can never have enough sunscreen, in my opinion)

I hope you are as excited to hear about my adventure as I was to live it. I will get these posts going in the next few days, so keep an eye out! If you're on Facebook, some people have already posted pictures, so you can take a look. But now, I'm really excited to be sleeping in my own bed tonight, and not some rocky/hard and uneven/cow-poop filled/or boisterous (Arsim picnic) ground.