Israel
Israel is not a place you visit casually.
Every stone has a name. Every valley appears in a text someone has been reading for two thousand years. You walk through the Old City of Jerusalem and the layers press down on you — Byzantine, Crusader, Ottoman, modern — all of it alive and argued over and deeply, stubbornly present.
We came expecting history. We weren't prepared for how warm the people would be, how good the food, how quickly it would start to feel like somewhere we belonged.
This is our collection of Israel — the ancient and the ordinary, the sacred and the surprising.
Israel
The Road North: Galilee, Masada, Caesarea, Acre, Jaffa, and the End of the World
Leaving Jerusalem is hard. You keep thinking of things you didn't do. Then the road north opens up — Galilee, Masada, Jaffa, Armageddon — and Israel gives you an entirely different kind of overwhelming.
Israel
Knock and It Shall Be Opened: Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank
We knocked on every door. Every iron gate, every arched wooden door half-hidden in the stone. And the strangest thing happened, again and again — they opened.