Greetings on Day 5. It continues to be very hot. Now I am not unfamiliar with "hot" as I grew up in it. But still as we are constantly thinking of our Lord walking this area we are impressed with that aspect of His incarnation. We grumble & groan and then get back to the air-conditioned car. He left the glory of heaven and lived among us. What a God!

We spent the day around Tiberias where we have been staying each night. Tiberias is on the Sea of Galilee (also called in John's gospel the "Sea of Tiberias"). We walked the "beach" area (the Prominade) and had one of our 2 meals each day (breakfast at the hotel and the lupper or linner or dinch).

We also went to Mt Arbel, a national park. The mount (just outside Tiberias) is a cliff. You can hike to the edge and look over. And you are way high with great views (as the pix indicates) of the Sea of Galilee, esp the north end (including Capernaum or Kepher Nahum and the Jordan Delta). On a clear day you can see the Golan Heights & Mt Hermon (so we were told; we have not had a clear day ... no clouds for days but very hazy). At the bottom of the day we topped it all off with a swim in Galilee. That was pretty neat. After Flathead it was boringly warm. And shallow ... we waded out perhaps 75 yards and were still head & shoulders above water.

Tomorrow Lord willing we head back to Tel Aviv in time to catch the 1:30 tour bus for Nazareth and some time with the Browns. More then!