May 8
I went on a long all day tour today and will not have time to tell the story – I have to go to sleep soon.
This picture totally cracks-me-up. I had not at all noticed that my hand was in the shot. I was trying to herd this crowd (1 Japanese, 1 Korean, 1 Indian, 2 Australians, 2 Russians, 2 Turks) into a picture, calling out ‘stop’ ‘oops, you’re behind him now’ ‘waait’ etc etc which brings me to the topic of Mother’s Day.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and I will be spending 18 HOURS in transit to get from point A to point B those points being less than 400 miles apart. This strikes me as having some strange internal justice.
It’ll probably be at least a day and half before I can finish this chapter about Cappadocia. I’m off to Jerusalem…Shalom!