Day 1 - Boston

We arrived here about 1:30 p.m. yesterday -- checked into the hotel and then took the subway two stops to the waterfront/aquarium area for some dinner and a visit of the old city. We'll likely return to the Aquarium today for another visit, before heading to the airport and our flight to Milan.
I've been to Boston a couple of times on business; but this is our first family visit here. A day's visit only allows for brief impressions -- the 'touristy' section of the old city is both predictable, and nifty. Lots of boats, of course, in harbour area on the warm but not excessively hot summer day.
I put out a business crisis last night (see http://www.constructionmarketingideas.blospot.com/) and have been reading Google reports on the Israeli situation -- but we will see more when we are on the ground there. Also fixed things so the image downloads from the camera work.

Packing our bags
This is our last night at home before embarking on the 3.5 week visit to Israel. It will become the third longest journey in my life (though obviously is not on the same scale as my youthful journeys to Africa, at 8 months and 18 months respectively in the mid-late 1970s.)
Nevertheless, this will be the first time for me to maintain a public travel journal.
Tomorrow we fly to Boston, MA, and spend about 30 hours there before catching a flight to Milan Italy and then Tel Aviv.