Just like every other blog...

... It never gets updated. Shame on me. Actually I have a decent excuse. During my trip to Israel, I decided to keep a journal for the trip, including experiences leading up to the trip and also as a result from the trip. There's quite a lot of good stuff in there, and a large amount that I did miss. Importantly though, my current mental state for each day is somehow captured in my comments. Unfortunately, dates, times, and places are painfully lacking.

Our first day we landed, we spent the night in "Abu Gof"? and got our speech with Momo about Love and Jewish babies. The next day I spent in Jerusalem, at the wall, on the bus, and at the bar. Then we drove to tel aviv to see the place of rabin(?)'s assination, and also a "tel" in jaffa. That night was pretty lame for me, but everyone else enjoyed a stay at the bar across the street in netanya(?). Then a shabbat day lazing around on the beach, and a nightclub at night, I wish I knew the name. Then a trip to Ceasaria and to Tiberius. A trip around golan heights and a battle ready bunker on the north east border. A drive down south with our new soldier friends to the Dead Sea and an evening in the bedouin camp with my newly acquired cough and somberness. Another bus ride to eilat with the malls and club scene #2. A drive up north to mt. masada (awesome) and a jaunt back west to Jerusalem. Friday night at the wall (also amazing) followed by alot of walking because the bus doesn't run on Shabbat. Havdalah in the hotel bomb shelter followed by tearful goodbyes.

There were additional nature hikes, scenic overlooks, inspirational stories, and moments now fleeting into the past. So for everyone interested in how the trip went, to quote the artist Avraham in Tzfat, it was "AaawwweesoooooooOOOOOooomme" (awesome).

Since then, I've just been trying to evaluate all of the things that are tying me to Reno. Definitely my friends here, all of them I consider family. My job, I couldn't imagine working somewhere with people as smart and as real. My "stuff", of which I have entirely too much of. My "obligations" which I've only recently been able to realize that they're all self imposed.

Over the next little while, my goal is to just talk about each of these things and how my perspective on them has become so much more clear.