The 40k day

It's been a while, no excuses here, I've just not updated the blog, sorry. I'm chilling in my tent as it rains. Hopefully the waterproofing holds up. The past few days have been a bit nasty, lots of mud and I had to ford a waist high river. The second day out from Jerusalem I walked by some nice people who made me dinner and drove it out to the night camp. There's been a lot of forest hiking and thanks to that I've seen a lot of wildlife including jackals and a couple foxes and a tortoise. A guy I met at the hostel in Jerusalem let me stay with him at his Airbnb yesterday in Tel Aviv. Thanks again Ben! Today was mostly beach hiking so I thought I'd try to make up some time because I'm a day behind schedule. 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) on the beach was brutal but it's over now. I'm currently just a bit south of Hadera and I plan to be in Caesarea tomorrow. I didn't take a ton of pictures because honestly there wasn't much to look at after the forest. It's one of those parts of the trail that is just there to get you somewhere else.

A couple foggy days, it's hard to capture how otherworldly it looks.

The B'nai B'rith Holocaust Memorial is a cave deep in the planted forest outside Jerusalem. It's a really solemn place even without the memorial.

Sunrise! I kinda wish it was sunny right now.

This s is Tel Afek, Herod built a fort here and the the Ottomans built on top of it. There's also a bunch of British Mandate buildings inside. Definitely a journey through history.