Day 14, Friday, March 16, 2018 - Tel Aviv to home
Our trip has finally ended. We had a 7am shuttle to the Ben Gurion airport, a relatively quick check through Israeli security and departed on United flight UA085 at 10:30. The flight was scheduled to take 12 1/2 hours but was actually an hour faster, arriving in Newark at 4pm. Of course with the early arrival, a gate was not available and we had to wait 20 minutes to disembark. I used the Mobile Passport app on my phone and it took less than a minute to get through the immigration hall. Even the Global Entry line was slower. We rented a car and started on our way home. Being Friday afternoon, the rush-hour traffic on the Garden State Parkway was stop and go for quite a while but despite that, we made it home a little after 8pm. Carmen had made a fire in the woodstove so the house was toasty warm. The Road Scholar trip we took, "Journey of a Lifetime: Israel and Jordan" certainly met my expectations and then some although at times there was Roman ruin "overload"...