good talk

When I left, I weighed 217, after 7 weeks, I weighed 193, it was very-grueling (maybe I should write a diet-book).  I climbed the mountain, only the most-pure are allowed to climb Mount Sinai.  From Taba, I paid Bedouins $100, to drive me to St. Catherine's, the only quick-way to get there, 120 miles, in 2012 and 2013, there were many kidnappings of  tourists on this route.  Good road, the Bedouin touched 160 K's, 106 mph, if you blow-out at this speed, I don't care what you got fastened, it's kamakaze, pretty-exciting.  At the top of Mount Sinai, is a cave where Moses spent 40 days, waiting for inspiration, I was in there, pretty-inspiring.  After receiving the 10 Commandments from God, Moses came-down to tell the Hebrews (Moses was "slow of speech", he had a stutter or stammer, interesting for a leader, when he wanted to speak to the People, he had his brother, Aaron, do this).  While at St. Catherine's, I met 2 Israeli Rock-Climbers, one, a red-head, said that he didn't much-care for the American Jews, as he thought them overly-materialistic, I said, they worship the Golden Calf, now, I was only trying to be conversational, friendly.  Not far from the base of Mt. Sinai, is St. Catherine's Monastery, protected by Muhammad, there is the Burning Bush, or at least its descendant, in which God told Moses to lead the Hebrews out of the land of Egypt to Canaan.  I was in St. Petersburg, have wanted to go to the Hermitage forever (you might not like it), and was at the Faberge Museum, saw 13 Eggs, have probably seen 30 all in all, 50 still in existence, hope to see them all, love those Eggs.  Was in the Canary Islands, Tenerife, loved-it, swam at Playa Teresitas, its sand is from the Sahara, really few good beaches in the Canarys for swimming, swam at Playa Jardin, a beautiful black-sand beach (volcanic), was the only one in the water, found-out why, the current tries to pull-you out to sea, and the strong-waves knocked-me over, smashing me into the rocks, got-up with blood flowing -down my arm.  You've taken advantage of my kindness