The bus was traveling through a bucolic mountain area where many Israelis go to vacation, hike or make pilgrimages to nearby Mt. Meron to the tomb of Rabbi Simeon Bar Yohai, a second century Torah sage who is an important figure in Jewish mysticism.
In 2009 and 2010, Sarah Shourd spent 410 days in solitary confinement as one of the American backpackers famously imprisoned by the Iranian government in a vacation hike gone terribly awry.
Mr. Azema, a software developer who lives in Paris, spends his vacations hiking and visiting funiculars.
It was family vacations hiking down into canyons in national parks like the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone... and gazing up at skyscrapers in big cities Chicago and New York City.
Indeed, after the call, he continued with his family vacation of hikes, massages and gourmet food provided at the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort near Tofino, British Columbia.
On Monday, as she returned from a two-week vacation — she hiked in the Alps with her husband, Joachim Sauer — the youth magazine Neon published a lengthy interview with the chancellor, who let drop that her worst foible was once drinking too much cherry wine and underscored that love can be forever, despite divorcing her first husband, Ulrich Merkel, whom she married as a student.
Of course, the whole point of pour-over coffee is that it's simple: you can do it at home, while on vacation, while hiking or indeed at a coffee shop with a bare minimum of apparatus.
Their idea of a vacation is hiking up the "14ers".
Fast forward a few months later: Americans collectively reached for the smelling salts when Mrs. Obama descended the steps of Air Force One one sweltering weekend in mid August to accompany her husband and children on a family vacation to hike the Grand Canyon wearing mid-thigh shorts.
If your Caribbean dream vacation includes hiking through a rain forest, snorkeling along colorful coral reefs, exploring Mayan ruins and sunbathing along the miles of picturesque white sand beaches -- you will find it all here, but paradise does have its price.
