OT: Manning the rails
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HT3 Hernandez pets the camel. I believe the guy in the getup was offering $5 camel rides. I wasn't interested. 
You have to realize this period was between two intifadas. I was so grateful to be able to visit the holy land on someone else's tab. I'm such a history buff.
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If you understand one thing, Jerusalem is built on ruins. It's been built up and torn down more than once. That's for sure.
Very interesting, love the pics and insight from all of you. I have never served or been there, but I respect and say thanks to all that have served and or are still in the forces. Thanks and do post more. Had to give a person chills just to be around all that history over there. Also to be on those ships.
SN Stevens, SN Lopez, FN Reed out on the smoking deck. (They would later ban smoking under skin of the ship)
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Yeah. I'm a huge history buff. Originally they were offering two tours. One to Jerusalem and Bethlehem and one of Masada. Luckily they cancelled the latter one. It would have been so hard to choose. The Romans we're here, Jesus walked here, Mohammed was here, King David, Herrod, sultans, etc. I touched the Western Wall. Thankfully, I was able to document my visit.
Pisa, Italy. It was a rainy & dreary day. Made the best of it. Was a 6 mile train ride from Levorno. Cheap tickets. Had lunch in Pisa and wanted to take a train into Florence (Firenza) and have dinner. Florence is the fashion capital of Italy. Lots of leather. Thought about getting a really nice leather encased flask, but never did bite the bullet. Looked at their coats long and hard. However, my buddy didn't want to go to Florence. We were required to have a buddy in the name of safety. So, we went back to Levorno.
We got dropped back off on the pier. I remembered from the earlier bus ride that there was a restaurant just outside of the port. We walked just outside the gate of the port and sure enough there was this restaurant. I ordered a sausage pizza. There was just the one piece of meat, smack dead in the center. I guess the locals aren't pigs like us Americans. We shared the pizza and a couple of bottles of wine. Can't believe I didn't take any pics of that place.
Note: the leaning tower of Pisa was undergoing restoration at the time of my visit
We got dropped back off on the pier. I remembered from the earlier bus ride that there was a restaurant just outside of the port. We walked just outside the gate of the port and sure enough there was this restaurant. I ordered a sausage pizza. There was just the one piece of meat, smack dead in the center. I guess the locals aren't pigs like us Americans. We shared the pizza and a couple of bottles of wine. Can't believe I didn't take any pics of that place.
Note: the leaning tower of Pisa was undergoing restoration at the time of my visit
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