The Blog
Diary of a solo traveler wandering around Europe

Here in England, for an unexplained reason, I feel my Jewishness — I, who all my life believed in my complete secularism and didn't want to hear anything about the dispersion and persecution of Jews — here I feel my parents, my grandparents, and the place of the Jewish tradition in their lives and mine. And just now, Mimy the cat is rubbing against my legs as she purrs loudly.

The drive isn’t long, just 286 kilometers, so I choose to to drive through quiet villages and farmland dotted with Frisian cows, just like the ones on my kibbutz. The day is beautiful, the green fields are of a deeper green, and out of nowhere, a tsunami of fear washes over me. Images of a tunnel carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of water above it race through my mind, along with the unreasonable crossing time I chose in my well-known thriftiness—three o'clock in the mo

I stay in the village of Ørbæk for about three more weeks, during which the hot water pipe is finally replaced, the hole is sealed, and the floor returns to its original state. However, the vacuum cleaner has disappeared from our lives forever, and the tractor hasn't moved an inch. But I’m having fun.

Now it’s June 2023. In my home land, in every major town and city book festivals are happening and book booths are sprouting everywhere like mushrooms after the rain. But I am sitting on a hill in central Germany, watching rabbits peek at me from the meadow and then scurry away.

When I breath, for some mysterious reason I hear a distant voice commanding: "Be afraid." It's only then that I relax those knots in my belly and this weird trembling starts at the pit of my stomach and works its way up right to the crown of my head. My whole body is tingling and shivering and that, I'm told, is the Energy of Fear.

You return to your room, sit in front of a screen, seeking validation for your discoveries. You watch countless videos on YouTube and realize that to narrow the radius of your pendulum, all you need to do is fly to Germany, go to a used car lot, announce your arrival, select a Wohnmobile that meets your needs, pay for it, and drive. Simple, right? Well, it turns out, it’s not quite that easy.

Unbeknown to me, sitting in that room is a fairly burly man who is just about to have his very late, very warm lunch, all shoved into an oval pita bread, and when I push that door open he has just taken a huge bite out of that pita and it is boiling hot and oozing Tahini all over his face. "Bon appetite, and excuse me. Can you tell me when my car will be examined?"

Thus, this entire journey would not have happened without the process I went through to free myself from everything that held me in the place I was stuck in - my comfort zone. So when this blog has readers, and some of them say, “What the heck is she rambling on about?” I will reiterate that without learning how to breathe in and out, and without the flow of whatever it is in my body, and without a bit of mindfulness this entire journey would have never happened.

The decision to leave your familiar and beloved comfort zone and to put your current life behind you is, to say the least, a challenging one. Beyond all the emotions you experience, there are also many technical matters to address. You have the house you live in, whether it’s rented or owned by you, there’s the car that needs to be sold or stored, and depending on how long you plan to be away from your homeland, you may need to notify certain authorities about your time abroa

I would like to leave this country in a camper van. But there is a but. In English you have the word "camper van" because you have a tradition of using camper vans as a means of traveling and vacationing. But in Hebrew there isn't a proper word for "camper van" because a) we have nowhere to travel to and b) it is not part of our heritage. So, before we embark on our journey, let’s find a word for CAMPERVAN. A caravan in English is CARAVAN, and a caravan is a trailer pulled by

Come. Get rid of your belongings, put them away, sell what you can, detach yourself from your beliefs and go on the Journey of Your Life.