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On our walk back to the car, a woman encouraged us to sign a petition to revive a Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem transportation route. She was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up a few blocks from where I lived. After a week of leaching off Adam and his Arabic ties I made a connection to benefit the travel team. She invited us to stay at her home, however, we were tired and had enough of the unique for one day so we chose the familiarity of a hotel room.

The coming of the weekend (Sunday through Thursday work week in Israel) brought vacation for Adam and I. That meant minimal hours dedicated to work and the end of Intel subsided travel. We passed up the plush $200 a night King David Hotel for the more reasonably priced Crown Plaza Tower. The Crown proved to be even nicer than the Dan!