With the very free day I had yesterday (still no call about the job), I upgraded my daughter’s iPhone to an iPhone5c. That took about three hours – much longer than I anticipated. I also spent some time on the phone with a travel agent for the upcoming “Footsteps of Paul” tour that I’m leading. I thought I was late on getting things done, but it turned out that I’m actually ahead of schedule. Whew, that’s a relief! I’m still short on numbers, so my partner in crime and I will need to promote this thing to a much wider audience if we’re going to fill a bus. The trip is great – truly great – but people see the cost and decide not to go. That’s frustrating, but I can certainly understand. I wouldn’t want to spend $4K+ on something I may only be mildly interested in (even though competitor’s price is as high as $7K for the same trip!). I guess we need to promote the trip in a way that makes it much more interesting to folks. I also asked for advice about a possible after trip to Egypt and Jordan for my family. The travel agent said that they are doing trips in Jordan, but they haven’t done anything in Egypt since 2012. To them, Egypt is currently more dangerous than Israel, and Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip right now. The tour company is still doing Israel trips, but not Egypt trips. Hmmm, maybe I should take this as a sign… Still, this is the best chance I’ll likely have to see Egypt, and other brave souls are visiting Egypt on their own right now with success, so maybe…