Amy is Home Safe and Sound

We didn't have to travel to Israel to vouch for her or call our Senators to get her out of a rat-infected prison; no power outage. As a matter of fact, her plane landed nearly an hour early. She found out Jordan and Israel hate each other, making crossing borders a nightmare. She also found out how wondrous places and people are.

 The Mediterranean Sea

They also swam in the Dead Sea but she didn't take her camera.

She found stray cats everywhere.

 A new addition to her window series.

An epic journey to Jordan and the Holy Land.

She flew from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam

just as we did nearly 20 years ago.

From Amsterdam,

she few directly to Salt Lake City

while we flew to San Francisco

then Salt Lake City.

Amy Lyn Hugh

Happy Birthday to the most adventuresome soul I know.

Grandmother Amy with two granddaughters named Amy.

Amy Jayne Hart; Amy Lyn Hugh.

A year later.

The three Amys.

We named her after her grandmother, Amy Heaton Esplin, and Grandfather, John Lynn Esplin. We didn't know at the time that she was born on the birth dates of my double-first cousin, Amy Esplin Levanger b 1922, and my great aunt, Amy Carroll Stark b 1882. Three Amys born on December 30.

Birthday Dinner 2017 in Israel

For her adventure this year, she visited the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth on her birthday:

 Jessie is working in Amman, Jordan.

Amy traveled with her parents, Jim and Judy Pechmann, to visit her.

 

Nazareth

  

  

  

 The Dead Sea

 Jerusalem

 The Wailing Wall

  

Visiting Jordan:

 Petra

 Two Arab Women?

 Wadi Rum

 The Promised Land

I think she might have had a pretty nice Christmas and birthday!