Maybe I should skip it this time. Almost without fail, every time we go on one of the AACI study trips, I get inspired and write a series of articles about where we’ve been and what we saw. But I just finished sending out eleven accounts of our tiyul to Egypt – complete with breathtaking photos – and I could use a break. Plus I just finished editing someone’s translation into English of a Hebrew text (one that I ordinarily would not have read) all 100 pages of it – as a PDF, no less (groan!). There are many other tasks and projects that I need to take care of with not enough time to do them. If I don’t have anything to say about our up-coming “Study Trip to Central Israel,” no one will be the wiser. There certainly won’t be people banging on our door and complaining that they’re being cheated out of what is rightfully theirs. Now that I think of it, I get the sense from the itinerary that there will be more listening and less looking. Should I even bring my camera? Might as well, because you never know.

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