The problems of new travel companions...

Jenny is tired, mopey, overly silent, and easily ripped off. I'm not sure I've seen anyone except maybe Ariane who is this bad of a traveler. However, the actual city is unbelievable. Bus to old city, grabbed random tour guide for walking tour. Ton of time spent in Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It's not what I expected at all, not one beautiful soaring unified building. It is a little maze inside, with levels and layers built and rebuilt and subdivided ever smaller between sects, with styles of decorations and lamps and icons changing radically from Catholic to Greek Orthodox to Roman Orthodox to Coptic to Assyrian to... within feet of each other. It overwhelms the senses, especially the Greek Orthodox parts. The supposed actual tomb is not displayed in all its glory, but tucked inside a tiny cramped alcove heavy with incense and too small to stand in.

Through the markets of all four quarters. The Cardo, the old market street of Byzantium, now a very posh little gallery. Views of the Dome and the Wall. Jenny was tired and sick, had to go back to the hotel at one.

I went back out, explored the little shopping mall at the bus depot and walked down Yafo street (cognate with Jaffa, the port at Tel Aviv). How can she be so unexcited, not want to see anything else?

Trouble getting in touch with Katee. I have crazy dreams, want to follow up on this Rockerfeller internship thing, but feel the chance slipping away.