bicycle plans

I have always loved to plan my next bicycle tours, down to small details by studying maps and getting information. It is like taking charge off your own life and plan it. One plan I was not in charge off was not a bicycle plan but a plan for my son's Raphael's future. I have never mentioned him before but he is 5-years old and likes bicycling. He was born in San Francisco and was never circumcised, even though he is Jewish, due to his mother. For me it was never a issue, I am Christian but I just didn't felt that it was right when he was born, to cut a piece off him. I loved every bite off him. It is not like on a bicycle if something doesn't look right or feels right you can just replace it. But now it is done, I replaced a piece on my son, he is know probber Jewish. I still love him, of cause but it was difficult.

Isra trail

I am planning tours and the starting point will be Tel Aviv at 10:00 due it many options of going north or south. A German women Steffi arrived to the hostel with her own bicycle and all equipment for staying outside for nearly a month. We look at the map of Israel and especially the North due to she wanted to go there first. Tuesday 24.04.2007 she started her Adventure in Israel and I joined her for the first around 25 km.

We took off from Jaffa Hostel and bicycled on the promanade to the old port in North Tel Aviv and past the power plant that was heavy secured to the the Memorial day. Past by the Air port for domestic flights to Eilat and went North on paved road. We took the #2 due to that we need air in tires and found a gas station with a PSI meter to meassure the exact amount of air. we bicycle on #2 for another 6 km to the kibbutz Gaash where we got off and went under the #2 road and went North. We went down to the beach to follow the Isra Trail on the beach. The beach is a beautiful wild nature beach with a lot of people and kids in the beginning but further away people are getting fewer and fewer. It has rained a lot last year and beginning of this year and you could see it on the water channels nature made. We bicycle around 6 km on the beach, which was somehow hard but a few spots it was very sandy and wet due to the lot of rain. So we had to get off and walk the bicycles a few times. We ended up at a beach just outside Netanyea with a lot of people and a few 4 wheel cars.

A very beautiful ride along the beach. I said good bye there and bicycled back and stayed a few hours on the beach before heading back to TLV. I arrived back around 17:30 and around 60 km.