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Gloom er Nick and Rich rode with us Tuesday so I figured it would be straight to the hotel after work. OK by me. I wasn't feeling so well after spending days in a car with Adam who was sick the previous week in Malaysia.

Earlier, I planned a full evening of site seeing. I chose the towns of Tagba and Capernaum on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. In Tagba, I was interested in seeing the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes. This is the site where Jesus fed more than five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish. Many recorded miracles were performed in Capernaum including healing the sick, blind, paralyzed, and raising a girl from the dead. Jesus moved his ministry here after being rejected in Nazareth.

Our invitation to Nick and Rich to join us turned sour when Nick insisted we return to the hotel for his camera. I wasn't going to spend an hour of daylight chasing down a camera. “Not as much fun taking pictures in the dark,” I said to Nick.

Since it was well after dark we agreed to see the sights another day. On the way back to the hotel, Adam flew by the exit. Had he missed the exit? Fallen asleep at the wheel? Not seen my pale, take me directly home face or noticed me sweating profusely, hacking and blowing my nose? Turns out, that sight seeing junkie knew if he passed the exit, the only route back to the Dan Hotel was by way of the Bahai Shrine and Gardens. Bad Adam!

The terraces of the Bahai Gardens stretch up Mt. Carmel to a point where you can see Lebanon. A golden-domed Shrine sits in the middle of the gardens commemorating the first prophet of the Bahai faith.

The only sight I was interested in seeing at that point was my bed and bathroom. Not sure if I was dizzier from the now full blown Malaysian bug my temperature had risen to fight or from taking sharp turns sitting in the back seat. Either way I was pissed! Calm yourself; think of some way to get out of this. Hmmmm. I'll try, "Adam, we should enjoy these sights when we can actually see them and make this a drive Bahai."

This got a laugh but more importantly turned discussion from "hey lets stop there afterward" as we drove near the gardens. Nick added that if he would have been permitted to get his camera he could have made a drive Bahai shooting. It was clear we were heading home.