Welcome to Israel! It's...raining I had big plans for today, a jaunt up to Caesaria, a famous Roman ruins site, a head-first dive in to Israeli culture, history, and the bus system. But instead, I’m snuggled with my boy on a foldout couch in my friend Uri’s apartment, after he and his flatmate have left for work, wondering if it will stop raining. Last night, when I walked out of the Tel Aviv airport, I was greeted with an enormous clap of thunder. Though I was all business, looking for a taxi cab while trying not to look too much like a callow tourist, I couldn’t suppress an inward gleeful shake. I whine often about the sad dearth of thunderstorms in California (if you live in the Central Valley or the SoCal coast), missing my Texas
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