My Current Situation

gunbunny said

By all means, please go ahead.
I'm glad you were able to take the trip back in time.
Unfortunately I'll likely never get back to the area again. When the opportunity popped up I jumped on it. I really had to stretch to justify my presence.
I was a bit of a slacker, and should have taken way more photos when the opportunity was open. I guess I was counting to much of one the other members of the group to take pics.
I did have a brief run in with the Waqf, I was threatened with having my photo taken and being banned from the Dome of the Rock. I wasn't to worried.

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There you did it again. On my second trip which was in 1998 made it to Jerusalem. I was with Jerry Dirk's again and Jamal a friend whose mother lived about a mile away from the Dome of the Rock.
The first night there we're going through the Stations of Christ and Jerry is telling me about each one as you're going along. And I said to him I take it you've been here before and he replied no. I said then how do you know so much about each station he says well it's written right here on the wall. and I look at wall and I can't understand anything written there. And said so you can read that, he sez yeah it's Latin I can read latin.
We were there a few days. Went to see arafat's compound while we were there.
My first trip was in 96 and my second trip was in 98, both of them were by invitation from Princess Alia and president Assad.