The Three (un)Wise Men, Episode 1

It was all becoming a bit overwhelming.  I was on my way to spend two weeks exploring Israel and Palestine, with the help of another high-school friend, Mark.  Mark and his wife Andrea were teaching English in a Palestinian high school for a couple of years and were apparently suffering from some sort of  food-borne illness that made them lose all reasoning processes of the brain.  Why else would they invite me to come over and stay with them?

The logistics were on the sketchy side, as well.  Our mutual high-school buddy Jeff would be flying up from Honduras (where he had been living for a year or so)through Dallas-Ft. Worth to Newark, NJ.  I would be taking the train from Pennsylvania to Newark International Airport and meet up with him with an easy 3 hours to spare before our flight left for Tel Aviv.  We would catch a taxi in Tel Aviv to take us up to Jerusalem.  No problems that I could foresee. Read more