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This is one of the things I can’t wait to do and I’m trying to get in better physical shape so it doesn’t wipe me out to do it.

At Mt. Mt. Sinai (Horeb) there is a monastery named St. Catherine. We stay overnight there and have the opportunity to climb the mountain and have a sunrise picnic breakfast at the peak, then descend by donkey. It must be somewhat long because we are scheduled to leave on the climb at 2:00 AM for a breakfast at 8:00 AM. Could it really take that long?? Guess we’ll find out. I’m down for it in any case. Who else is going?

Read more here: The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai.

Didn’t you love to get postcards back in the day when friends and relatives were on a trip? Sometimes they didn’t make it to you until your friend was already home, but as a kid I thought - wow - they actually wrote this from another country or the other side of the US, or even a ship at sea.

It’s easier to communicate now, but postcards are still cool. We’re going to use this website for daily postcards home. Give your friends and relatives this website address (www.holytourist.com) and have them subscribe with their email address there in the right column to our RSS feed. Once we leave we’ll try to keep up a log with a few pictures every day. Your friends and relatives will get an email alert of the update and they can check out our daily "postcard".

The only hotel we will stay in that does not have wifi is at ST. Catherine at the base of Mt. Sinai (Horeb), so we may miss an update that day, otherwise I expect to send something out daily.

Be sure that YOU subscribe also so you can see updates to the trip, reminders, etc. as we get closer to our departure date.