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Hawaii (Big Island) 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY |  TRAVEL   Kailua-Kona, Hawaii A friend and I went to Hawaii for the first time in late April and we were there for a week. We stayed the first few nights at an Airbnb and then with a friend for the rest of our stay (both places were very close to downtown). The first two days we had a truck and drove to Hilo, which is on the other side of the island. We didn't have a lot of time with the truck so we couldn't go see everything (including the volcano), but there were lots to do even with a small budget. The whole trip cost under $1,000 CAD (including airfare), though we were really there to take a break from work and go beach hopping. I also really wanted to see some lava, but since we went a few months after the volcanic eruption, there weren't any active flows. One of the days with the truck, we went up Mauna Kea to see the sunset. Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world when you measure it from its underwater base. You need a 4x4 ve...

Israel 2020 - Day 1

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The "Israel 2020" posts are day-by-day summaries of the trip taking place from February 23 to March 5, 2020. 

We left Montreal on February 22 and had a layover in Toronto before flying to Tel Aviv. 


View of Ramat Gan.

Day 1 - Arrival:

We arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in the morning on February 23 and picked up the rental cars. While we were waiting for the rest of the group to arrive, we decided go see Zvi Hecker's Spiral House and Dubiner Apartment House in Ramat Gan. After eating lunch at the beach, we drove up to Haifa.


Dubiner Apartment House by Zvi Hecker, 1963.


Spiral Apartment House by Zvi Hecker, 1989.


Stray cat at the Spiral House.

Looking up at the Spiral House from the street.

Guards for the balcony edge at the Spiral House. 


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