The kids absolutely loved Old City Jerusalem – New Video
It was an epic day! My favorite part is a Emma snarking about an ancient Roman artifact: “It’s not a game board; It looks like a seat.”
It was an epic day! My favorite part is a Emma snarking about an ancient Roman artifact: “It’s not a game board; It looks like a seat.”
Here is our final itinerary of Yucatan, Mexico. It’s a trip that I increasingly admire for it’s well rounded attributes of adventure, history and fun. We would highly recommend a trip like this to any family looking for a little excitement. And it’s comparably cheap for exotic travel!
Here are a few newly edited photo’s from our first day in Jerusalem where we covered the old city on foot. It was one of the most exhausting and exciting days of our entire trip – rivaling only the night in the Sahara in intensity.
Click on one for the slideshow.
Don’t assume the (international) GPS replaces a good map. We bought the Garmin mexico map set and it was ok, but not great. It was useful as a compass, and in the cities. It helped to know our position on long roads, to be sure we hadn’t overshot our destination, and estimate travel time. But it was generally bad at finding the shortest route and getting us there. Some of the new roads were missing, and it frequently thought we were driving through the jungle with no road. Get a map.
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I work a block from the headquarters of National Geographic in Washington D.C. so there was no excuse to miss getting our area’s hottest ticket: the Terracotta Warrior exhibit.