IsraelRide Archive
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IsraelRide 2006
Day 0 - Bike Setup and Old City Tour
Day 1 - Jerusalem to Ashquelon
Day 2 - Ashquelon to Mashabei Sadeh
Day 3 - Mountain Biking & Kibbutz Sde-Boker to Mitzpe Ramon
Day 4 - Shabbat at Mitzpe Ramon
Day 5 - Mitzpe Ramon to Kibbutz Ketura
Day 6 - Kibbutz Ketura to Eilat
Before the rideArrive in JerusalemYad Vashem and Jerusalem Mall
After the rideShopping and Snorkeling in EilatRelaxing in Tel Aviv
My fundraising page:
http://arava.kintera.org/2006israelride/dylangreene
Eilat is a beach resort city with lots of hotels, shopping right on the beautiful Red Sea.
Down into the machtesh (it's not a crater!). This was a hot and sunny day!
Distance: 60 miles
I'm back from my two week trip to Israel. I'll have photos up soon. Still recovering from the jetlag..
The ride is over and I'm happy to say it was a wonderful success. The hotels, food, weather, and people couldn't have been more perfect. It was long, hot, and exhausting, and worth every mile of it.
Since I can't use my laptop (power supply is busted), I'm using a terminal in a Tel Aviv internet cafe to post this, and I'm about to run out of time.
The photos from the rest of the trip will be online soon after I return home on Sunday!
Day three of biking!
After being on road bikes for well over 100 miles it was a great change of pace and environment to hop on mountain bikes and take a rocky and hilly trail to a spring in the middle of the desert.
Today was the hottest day so far, and you'll see hardly any trees and lots of rolling rocky hills.
Distance: 67 miles including mountain biking
Second day of biking!
You'll see lots of photos from my favorite impromptu stop so far - an ostridge farm that went for miles and was populate with thousands of ostridges that could be seen in every direction.
Distance: 68 miles
First day of biking!
You'll notice from these photos lots and lots of trees!
Distance: 66 miles
Well I wasn't ready for this one - my laptop's power supply just exploded. A small crackle, a poof of smoke, and the smell of burnt electronics. And so it is now impossible for me to charge the laptop.
So I have two hours of power for the next week I'm here in Israel. Yikes!
I can use other people's machines to sort the photos from the last few days, but i might not be able to upload new photos until I get back to Virginia on the 21st.
Anybody in Israel have a charge cable for an old Compaq Armada M700? 
Today is the second day of riding and I'm tired but not sore, partly thanks to the free massages today!
I have to go to bed now so I won't have time to upload and sort the photos but I should tomorrow. I've even been tracking the ride with GPS using my phone and some cool software so you'll be able to see satellite images of our route.
Here's a preview photo of my dad and me, more to come soon!
Also, we are still accepting donations!
Donate here: http://arava.kintera.org/2006israelride/dylangreene
$1 or $100, every bit helps!
Together the riders have raised almost $500,000 already!
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Last day before the ride starts!
The first thing we did today was set our bikes up. Most people brought their bikes in shipping containers on the plane. I have a pretty crappy bike back at home so I opted to use one of their bikes - a brand new Fuji road bike.
After setting our bikes up and a picnic lunch we got a tour of the Old City again. You might recognize a few views from our first day in Jerusalem we entered a different gate and saw a few different things.
Tommorrow we'll be waking up at 4:45 to begin our jouney!