Frustrated and disappointed that Acme in Jenkintown and Target in Abington are out of Chanukah wrapping paper and it’s only Monday. The holiday doors not begun until Tuesday evening.

On the Move can be across the street to watch the Friday night game. Hometown, grandson, what can be bad. Youthful exuberance, our future. 
Final score Jenkintown 36,Valley Forge Military Academy 0.  
What a game!!!!

Travel is not limited to planes, trains, cars or a bus. Travel is not limited to multiple days, various cities, states, countries. Travel is a specific special place apart from where you reside.
Yesterday, I took a one day trip to visit my best, forever friend in Pikesville, MD.
Why is this special to me? Yes to see friends but driving this route, crossing the Delaware River brings recall of my youth, traveling  to Washington, DC to see family.  My wonderful father Meyer Lichtig made each and every trip an adventure creating our thirst for travel.  We used the dictionary, encyclopedias, paper maps to chart the route we were taking, to learn about the history of the region.

That is how I approach travel,  exploring and learning about that new place you are visiting except now we use the internet though I must admit when I went to Israel in March, I did use traditional tour books and their subsequent maps.

Make every travel experience special  You will create wonderful memories.

As the last days of  Summer camp draw to a close, I am reminded of  Albert Camus' statement,
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
This sustains us for another year.
Max is onthe Move home.
 

Reflection of a trip that can never be duplicated...there is only one "first time to Israel" but ready to post my adventures.
Arriving in Tel Aviv in the morning,  knowing nobody, not speaking the language, changing currency, navigating a nesher to Jerusalem, check-in, change rooms and now what to do for the rest of the day! Ask the concierge. Down this street, cross over, up the avenue and I'm at the back end of Machane Yehuda Shuk (market). Where to go, which smells to follow.  Hustle, bustle, scurry, it's almost time for Shabbat and everything will shut down. Courtesy of JWRP, I'm invited to Shabbat dinner at a private home.  Took a non-public cab but I con't find the address and none of the men would answer me when I asked for help but now I understand. It was Shabbat, I should not have been riding in a cab, only walking. I had a lovely dinner at the home of a couple who emigrated from England and Los Angeles to Jerusalem. Tip toed quietly down the dark steps to my waiting cab.  Shabbat Shalom.

Because of life circumstances I was unable to travel for many many years. More of that later. I wanted to tell you how the travel bug started in my family. My parents, especially my father, loved to travel. Travel to him was an involved, multi faceted adventure.  When a destination was picked the planning began. The research. The library trips, the maps opened, circled and taped.  A place was not just chosen for the it's history. That was the beginning. The place had to be researched for location, climate, politics, food, dress, shopping, museums and more. By the time my father boarded the plane or ship he had developed a small booklet and happily distributed it to those also going to the same place.
Another

Yad Vashem today. Need time to digest, too much to