Guides and Trips
Trips
It was pretty warm today in the 90s but I took off for a nice walk after our group left back for the United States. I took a little different course than I normally take to see new things and have interesting pictures for you along along the way. I walked through part of the Old City and around part of the Old City and took a lot of pictures of people...
Our group arrives today so I decided to take an early morning walk along the Sea of Galilee to get my exercise and to immerse myself back in the land. It rained a bit but overall a beautiful walk with lots of birds and flowers blooming everywhere. I always like stepping back to Jesus's time as I watch the fisherman coming in to the little harbors in the morning and unloading their...
2013-03-06 Group Walk Around Jerusalem
West Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Walking | 3.1 miles
Walking | 3.1 miles
I have a great group of people here in Jerusalem so I offered to take them to walk around the outside of the walls of the old city.
It was a beautiful day and you can see and everybody enjoyed learning about the history, Bible, and the roots are safe. They had whisper sets and I had a microphone and I explained to them that they were seeing along the way.
I hope...
I've been wanting to climb up to Susita for sometime now. Today I had the time and it was a deliciously beautiful day. Hiking up the steep inclines I was again amazed at the ancient people who would build a city on a hill like that and climbing up and downwithout cars or modern roads. These were tough people back then - including Jesus and his disciples. Susita was one of 10 cities...
Janet and I had a free day so I decided to take an adventure. I called my friend George in Bethlehem and he picked me up and drove me to the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. I started my walk from the place where Jesus was born. That's why the titlist from "Womb to Tomb." I visited a lot of my friends in Bethlehem and saw a lot of sites and I...
It was still very dark. I had my flashlight and the frequent street lights to guide me. I decided to take you all on an early morning walk to see many holy sites in and around the Old City of Jerusalem. I even arrived at the tomb of Christ early in the morning like Mary Magdalen. Some of our pilgrims were at Calvary and the tomb so I showed them around a...
What a great way to start the New Year! Took off at sunrise to walk around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem and giving you a quick tour of many of the holy sites. Enjoy!
Early morning brisk walk along the shore of Galilee; my last exercise for 2012. I've covered more than 1160 miles in 2012.
Unusual for Dubai, but the heaves opened and rain flooded the streets. Locals were aghast and out with their cameras. When the rain subsided I took off walking with the tallest building in the world as my destination a the Burj Khalifa. It was Friday, the holy day for Muslims so I caught a bifocals their Imam preaching. It was a long 10 mile walk dodging flooded streets. I didn't go up...
Between my talk this morning and two talks later today I took off to explore Muscot, the main city in Oman. It is a little over 100 miles from Iran across the Gulf of Oman. There are fewer than 3 million in Oman and most live along the coast, most in Muscat. Forty years ago Oman was mostly desert with Arabs with flocks and riding camels. Oil has caused it to sprout...
My two full days of talks ended last night when we arrived back to our Minerva Grand Hotel at 10:30 PM. Today was the first time free to strike out here in Hyderabad for exercise and adventure. In the first video I say I hope to find St. Mary's and to get to the man-made lake. I failed at both. Streets teeming with people, motorcycles, rickshaws, dirt, exhaust and noise. No American...
India is exotic, but far more exotic and fascinating is the eastern extreme of India on the border with China and Burma in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. We are speaking at the Catholic conference put on by the bishop of Nagaland and we stayed in the remote capital named Kohima. This is location of the decisive battle of WWII where the British crushed Japan and stopped their march across India....
Started the day late after sleeping from exhausting day of speaking and traveling to Pune. Four miles on the elliptical machine before striking out 3.6 miles thru Mumbai. Exotic, devastating poverty, happiness and friendliness, filth and family tenderness. A maelstrom of the senses. I took off with no destination other than to randomly explore.
Giving talks today at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Pune India, a 3.5 hour drive from Mumbai. We stayed over night in a Racing Club. Fireworks blasting until midnight in celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights, called Diwali.
I got up early to walk thru the neighborhood. It is always heartbreaking to see families sleeping on the filthy sidewalk without anything but rags as blankets. No American can prepare themselves for the...
Off the ship for Mass in the city of Heraklion on the island of Crete. St. Paul visited this island at least twice and left Titus on Crete as bishop to oversee the young church's growth. I took the group to the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Titus where his skull is in a reliquary for veneration. The group walked back to the ship and I took a sweat-inducing power walk thru...
We docked in Patmos and toured the Cave of the Revelation where Jesus appeared to St. John and the result was the last book of the Bible which was written here: the Revelation of St. John. I brought all 180 of my people up to the cave on four buses. After the tour I gave a talk on St. John and then I walked three miles around the island before returning to...
We arrived in Athens last night and stayed at the Metropolitan Hotel. Got up early this morning and took the shuttle downtown at the drop off point at Syntagma Square near the Acropolis. First I went through the Agora where Socrates, Plato and Aristotle taught, then up to Top of Mars Hill where St . Paul spoke to the Athenians in Acts 17. Then climbed around to the Acropolis and went up...
I'm giving two talks at the Marian Conference at the Boyne Lodge in Boyne Mountain Ski Resort in Michigan.
Started with two miles on the elliptical machine in the fitness center and then out into the cool and crisp fall air of Upper Michigan. The trees were beautiful, the birds were singing and I listened to podcasts by Jimmy Akin along the way.
My talks here are: 1) Swimming Upstream: Living and Sharing...
We are here in North Dakota giving talks at a church in Beach, North Dakota. As long as we are staying right on the edge of the Theodore Roosevelt State Park, we decided to hike back into the Badlands and the grasslands of North Dakota and see the Petrified Forest.
Along the way we came upon several bull bison and were somewhat concerned because the Park rangers say that they can be...
