Day 26: Dead Sea

This last day in the field was a short one, as we quit at about 11:00AM.  I hurriedly packed and moved out of the room.

After lunch, I said goodbye to Jason and all the others and loaded onto a very crowded bus for the southern tour.

We drove for 3½ hours through the desert—seeing several Bedouin along the way—until we reached the Ein Gedi Youth Hostel on the Dead Sea (around 5:30PM)

Dinner was standard youth hostel food.  After, (at 8:30) we all decided it would be a good idea to go to bed so we would be ready for Jeff Blakely’s 3:45AM wake-up knock and “GOOD MORNING!!”

We had eight girls in our room: Joni, Heather, Liza, Sarah, Doreen, Deb, Carrie, and me.  It was unbearably hot. I thought I was going to die. Modesty was completely disregarded in the name of comfort.