JUNE 2008 Trip to Greece

My buddy Dan and I started out driving our Harleys from Kaiserslautern, Germany. We drove south through Switzerland and into Italy. We stayed over night in Pisa, Italy and continued across Italy to Ancona, Italy were we caught a 15 hour ferry across the Adriatic Sea to Igoumenitsa, Greece. From there we drove around Greece following the outline of the coast line. We hit Ancient Olympia, Nafplio, Athens, Meteroa, and many more small towns along the way camping out and just taking it easy. We drove 2,950 miles during this trip.





A photo stop in Switzerland.

A Stop at the Pisa Tower
















Just arriving in Greece







Ancient Olympia




Where the games were played.
























Me across the finish line.
















































Traveling on





















Athens





The Parthenon














Theater of Dionysus











Theater of Herodes Atticus




























Theater of Dionysus











Parthenon





















Nafplio, Greece
























































































































Statue of King Leonidas located at Thermopylae, Greece. You know what this is if you watched the movie "300"





Meteroa, Greece




























































We rode through these mountains in northern Greece for over 160 miles. There were thousands of curves. It was great on the bike.

Jerusalem, Israel (Wailing Wall, Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock)

The Western Wall also known as the Wailing Wall.












Double click on the picture to read the sign that is posted near the Wailing Wall. (Click on any of these pictures to enlarge them)


















On my first trip to the Wailing Wall











Second trip to the Wailing Wall.















There were a lot of groups gathering for daily prayer.

















Me making my way to the Wailing Wall on my second trip to the Wall. I am the one in the black shirt and the white Kippah on my head and the the water hose coming out of my backpack.










Me praying at the Wailing Wall.












Me on top of Temple Mount. In the background you can see the Dome of the Rock (Haram Esh-Sharif Mosque)














We were turned away from going up here on our first visit to Jerusalem but towards the end of our trip we came back early in the morning when no one was around and went up and got some pictures of it.

































Me and my travel buddy Doug.


































Me outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The inside was very interesting.
On the inside a marble slab covers the rock on which Christ's body is believed to have been laid.












This is the room where the last supper took place. Mount Zion

The gate going into Old Jerusalem through the Muslim Quarter.

Soldiers patrolling Old Jerusalem.

A guy named Josh that we made friends with. I was invited to dinner at his home on my next visit to Israel

Helping a local Arabic vender in Jerusalem get his cart up the steps. He was at the bottom struggling when I first saw him.

On our way from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on our first day in Israel