Just got in from guiding, 4 days guiding this week. Shabbat comes in in an hour.
Last day of the year, a good time to take a moment to review what has been accomplished. It also marks 3 years that I have been guiding and blogging. My first clients were referred by a friend in Boston. The grandfather was the initiator of the family trip which included his wife, his daughter and son-in-law and their 2 children and the inlaws, in honor of his grandson’s bar mitzva. Since then I guided the son-in-law and 2 business associates, Texas oil men when they were here on business and will be guiding the grandfather and friends in January. My most recent client had to reschedule to today when her flight out of Newark was cancelled by heavy snow. Meanwhile weather in Israel has been mild, temperatures in the 60s (dropping now to 50s) and little rain.
I’ve written 86 articles and I’ve built a modest website which has 14 pages. From only 4 page views per day in the first year, a total of 1384 I increased to 42 page views in year 2, a total of 15,211. This year is up another 57% to an average of 65 page views per day, a total of 23,889. In the last 2 months I’ve been averaging more than 95 page views a day so people are reading my posts. This is thanks mostly to other bloggers who have linked to me so thank you Todd, Jan Pieter, Carl and others for your help. See everyone in the new year.
- For your convenience here is a complete list of the blog posts on the Israel Tours site linked to the original articles.
- Archaeological Artifacts with Names
- Caiaphas Family Tomb and Ossuary
- Columbarium for doves
- Madaba map
- Eclectic Style Architecture
- Art and Architecture, Jaffa
- Jaffa railway station
- Bauhaus Architecture Tour
- UN Partition Plan – November 29, 1947
- Masada Finds
- Herodium Palace Complex
- Ashdod Cruise Ship Tours
- Roman Bathing Pool
- At the last minute
- 墨絵 Jerusalem Sumi-e
- Red Canyon
- Olive Park, Ramat Rahel
- Coins found in archaeological excavations
- Aqueduct at Caesarea
- Bird Mosaic at Caesarea
- Nymphaeum at Herodium?
- Roman Theater Box at Herodium
- Pomegranates at Jewish New Year
- What to see in Jerusalem
- Bat Mitzvah
- Nahal Dragot
- Roman Bath House
- Upside Down, Jerusalem
- New Israel Museum
- Mosaics
- Oskar Schindler’s grave
- Jaffa
- Segway Tour
- Katlav
- Roman Cardo
- Hurva Synagogue views
- Agamon (Hula) Lake
- Small Makhtesh
- Nahal Saar
- Spring wildflowers
- 4 Day Itinerary
- Mount Sodom and Nahal Peratzim
- Masada at Sunrise
- Wildflowers, after the rain
- Nimrod, Golan
- Nahal Yehudia
- The Dead Sea
- Negev desert
- Ein Gedi
- Original photos, 1898
- Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Judean palm
- Wildflowers, before the rain
- Golan Wineries
- Someone to Tour With
- Nature and Nurture
- Golan Vineyards and Wineries
- Golan Sparkling Wine
- Israel with kids
- Brandy
- Heap of the Wild Cat
- Wine tour
- Jerusalem Restaurant Recommendations
- Jerusalem Underground
- City of David: Inscription & bulla
- Herodium: Mausoleum & Sarcophagi
- Siloam Pool
- Yatir forest
- Hike Sea to Sea
- Hike above Bab el Wad
- Why hire a Guide?
- Family Trip
- Mahane Yehuda market
- Dead Sea: Hiking Nahal Zohar
- Finding a guide at the last minute
- Dead Sea: Hiking and Qumran
- German Colony Walking Tour
- Dead Sea – Lowest Place on Earth
- Herodium and Tomb excavations
- Map of Mahane Yehuda Market
- Christian 4-day itinerary
- Fastfood Slowfood
- Negev touring and Dead Sea
- Snow in Jerusalem
- Gamla, in the Golan
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