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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM January 18, 1998
Sunrise (local): 6:41 a.m. Sunset (local): 5:00 p.m.	Weather 75°F
Traveled Since Yesterday 0 mi / 0 km Cumulative 1665 mi / 2681 km	Lat: 32° 03' 44" N Lon: 34° 47' 54" E Elev: 135 ft / 41 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Tel Aviv
Where We're Staying: once again, the truncated team of four is staying with friends in two different locations
Places We Visited: Jerusalem Beach, Rabin Square, ORT School headquarters, Beth Hatefutsoth (Museum of the Jewish Diaspora), "Haganah" Museum, Masa Acher (the Israeli Geographical Magazine), Tel Aviv Bikers Association headquarters
Featured Site: Beth Hatefutsoth (Museum of the Jewish Diaspora)
Person of the Day: Tel Aviv Bikers Association's Segit, Micky, Marcos, Charles, and others
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: bagels; Breakfast: oops, forgot to eat breakfast today!; Lunch: yikes, forgot to eat lunch today too!; Dinner: in a Yemenite restaurant, we had humus, humus with grilled mushrooms, vegetable salad, "roast meat," and pizza; Olive Count: 1396
Word of the Day: Ahava means "love" in Hebrew.
Tech Fact of the Day: There is mandatory army service for everyone in Israel!: Flat Count (Cumulative): 8; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 22


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