May 17/18, 2008
Travel days offer up the good and the bad. I always start out hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Travelling with 20 other Christians helped as we went to the Toronto Airport Chapel after checking in and had a communion service in a peaceful place. Somehow it wasn’t an airport anymore and as we made our way to our Alitalia flight to Rome, the peace stayed. Leaving at 5:30 Saturday afternoon, we arrived in Rome at 2:10 am Toronto time, hardly rested and into the joke that is Rome airport. Oops, peace gone. Cattle car buses taking passengers to and from the tarmac – few real gates in a run down hodgepodge of buildings. We had to clear security and the lines to get through soon turned into chaos with people going under the tapes or just removing them. Finally in the waiting room for our flight to Tel Aviv, we found a coffee stand that served up amazing Americanos – son-in-law Peter, the Toronto restauranter, would be glad to know we found some good joe. Arriving in Tel Aviv, the pilgrimage to the Holy Land begins.
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