Driving highs and lows (and the Galilee is getting back to normal)

September 27, 2006 - 8:24 PM by Sarah

Now that his city (Haifa) is not experiencing rocket attack from Lebanon, Rock of Galilee has a chance to focus on more “normal” aspects of life, such as driving to Safed for his children’s school’s tour of the city (Safed is one of the four “holy cities” in Israel) and special prayers for the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

First of all, the drive was amazing. From Haifa towards Karmiel and then continue on the Karmiel road to the Meron Interchange, and then up past meron to tzfat. This is some of the most gorgeous countryside in Israel. Driving, with the windows down and the music loud, is one of the most relaxing experiences (Warning: If you are doing it for 12 hours, listening to “It’s the end of the world as we know it” by REM the entire trip it may make one of your passengers a bit crazy.) So I drove and drove and drove, about an hour from Haifa and really enjoyed the scenery.

. . . . The drive home was nice, thoug hit was pitch black. At one point there was what seemed to be a bad accident, with glass all over the highway and a bus stopped on the side, but I didn’t see a really smashed up car. A minute later, I see some people on the highway waving people around the large body of a cow. It was very dark, so I probably wouldn’t have see the cow if not for those people.

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