Back to Israel
After
leaving Israel in April due to hole problems, I returned to the project in late
June. We resumed drilling the offshore
well to our next casing point at which time I was able to return home late July
while the rig ran the casing. I am
scheduled to return to the project on the 8th of August and will
remain until the end of the project which should be sometime in September.
During the
time I was back on the rig, the Israeli military ordered three evacuations from the rig so they could
do some missile testing. During one of
those two day evacuations, 17 of us took a trip to Jerusalem. This trip I had a movie camera which took
both movies and snapshots. We spent our
time in and around the old city. We
followed the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa and visited the
Garden Tomb, another possible crucifixion and burial site of Christ. I was able to capture sights and sounds with the video that I could not with my SLR
camera I was using in February. I will
be updating and adding to the February 11th blog Following Christ's Path to the Cross with some of the pictures I took in
July.
When I leave
the project for the final time, my intention is to fly to Frankfurt, Germany,
then take another flight to Paris, France.
I will spend a couple of days in Paris taking in the sights
before taking a train to Normandy to tour the WWII battlefields.
At that
point I will return to Paris, then Frankfurt and home. I will be posting photos and descriptions of
that portion of my trip once I return home.
Helicopter landing on the rig helideck. Some transportation occurs by helicopter,
mostly the travel is by boat.
Photo taken on the helideck of the sun setting in the Mediterranean Sea.
