Sea to Sea

Finally!!! I've wanted to do the Sea to Sea hike for 12 years. With Sarah as my trusty hiking companion I finally achieved this goal! It was beautiful and empowering.

We walked, over the course of 4 days, from the Mediterranean Sea...

to the Sea of Galilee.

I put my Hebrew and map loving skills to work navigating the way.

Sarah used her resources to put together a very delicious hiking menu for us. We didn't get tired of eating couscous every night, it was so yummy! We just poured cool water over it and 30 minutes later, dinner. No fire needed!

Refilling water bottles every evening was an important part of our routine. Our last night we got to fill them from a 'mikvah'. A 'mikvah' is a ritual bathing area in Judaism, the source of the water must be "living". This means that the water is fresh and running from a natural source. It just so happened that when we first walked up to fill our bottles, there were over a dozen men standing around who had very recently completed a bathing session. We averted our eyes and came back a couple of hours later.

Then of course, all the beauty that we passed through:

It is a tradition to carry a bit of Mediterranean water to the Sea of Galilee. The delivering of the water marked the end of my first real multi-day backpacking trip.