Some things are beyond are control ... like traffic jams. Our first (and hopefully only) major problem of this tour took place this morning, and it was a BIG one. After making very good time heading south from Tel Aviv toward the Negev and traffic suddenly stopped. It was a few moments later that we learned that about ten kilometers ahead of us, a bit before our planned turnoff, a truck had overturned. There was basically nothing we could do beyond inching along VERY slowly, calling and being called from the school we were supposed to visit at the Beduoin town of Hura. We already had a tight schedule for the day, and a setback such as this made it considerably tighter.
Some of us made the best of a terrible situation by getting some much needed sleep, while others took the time for some enjoyable, and heated, discussion (about education and ICT, of course).
After inching along for little more than a kilometer we reached a road block that turned us around toward where we'd come. We lost about an hour and a half that way, and by that time, when we got back to an alternative route, it was also packed. We luckily knew of yet another route, but by the time we got to it, and beyond the closed road, school was already letting out in Hura, and it was with great disappointment, and many apologies, that our only possibility was to move on to our next stop.
So, things were beyond our control, but it was still a major loss on our part.
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