Comments on: Getting to Sinai http://www.theottery.com/2006/09/getting-to-sinai/ "If an otter can't have fun doing something, it just simply won't do it." Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: theotter http://www.theottery.com/2006/09/getting-to-sinai/#comment-192 theotter Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:32:37 +0000 http://www.theottery.com/2006/09/getting-to-sinai/#comment-192 Glad to have you back safely from the last of your travels, K! Coming up sometime soon: a post about the charnel house . . . Glad to have you back safely from the last of your travels, K!

Coming up sometime soon: a post about the charnel house . . .

]]> By: K http://www.theottery.com/2006/09/getting-to-sinai/#comment-191 K Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:14:33 +0000 http://www.theottery.com/2006/09/getting-to-sinai/#comment-191 dear otter, your recountings of our adventures and mishaps have had me doubled over laughing and holding my stomach weakly... those long miles across the sinai peninsula with its sand and rock were incredible (and more sand and more rock... we retraced the same route on the way back and it didn't look familiar until we passed the smiley-face billboard; a piece of flat metal perched up on an overhanging ledge of rock... i must have glazed over at about hour 1.5 en route to st. catherine's). it certainly made me appreciate the grace of shade and water. no wonder jonah was outraged at the little worm that devoured his gourd plant. after all the drama of our travels, i discovered a very relevant classical inscription in rome. it was a dedication made after someone's journey in the centuries B.C., grateful for a safe 'going' and a safe 'return' (itus and reditus). a footprint was drawn in relief pointing one direction and another pointing the opposite way. all i have to say is, ditto. -k dear otter,

your recountings of our adventures and mishaps have had me doubled over laughing and holding my stomach weakly…

those long miles across the sinai peninsula with its sand and rock were incredible (and more sand and more rock… we retraced the same route on the way back and it didn’t look familiar until we passed the smiley-face billboard; a piece of flat metal perched up on an overhanging ledge of rock… i must have glazed over at about hour 1.5 en route to st. catherine’s). it certainly made me appreciate the grace of shade and water. no wonder jonah was outraged at the little worm that devoured his gourd plant.

after all the drama of our travels, i discovered a very relevant classical inscription in rome. it was a dedication made after someone’s journey in the centuries B.C., grateful for a safe ‘going’ and a safe ‘return’ (itus and reditus). a footprint was drawn in relief pointing one direction and another pointing the opposite way.

all i have to say is, ditto.

-k

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