Heat was going to be our big challenge: temperatures in the area were climbing into the mid-90’s by late morning, and that was more than Zevin could tolerate, even had he not been recuperating from being sick. Fortunately, we...

Early Tuesday morning, we picked up our Budget rent-a-car and waved goodbye to the Holy City of Jerusalem, making our way east and south down to Ein Gedi, an oasis on the shore of the Dead Sea. We arrived...

The ten-hour time shift created the perfect storm for our jet lag: we found ourselves fighting sleep in the early afternoon and then wide awake somewhere between midnight and 2 am, ready to attack the day. On the bright...

Zevin played hookie from his last day of fourth-grade so we could make it to our flight to Israel on Wednesday, kicking off a three-and-a-half week trip that will include some time on the canals of Brittany and a...