See What’s Out There

Wow, it’s been a week since I posted anything. We have been on the road, having fun and exploring southern Israel. It is Friday morning here and we are leaving early Sunday morning. I am tired, especially tired since learning that I will be back on the road on Monday for business, less than 24 hours after coming back.

This installment of the Israel trip video is about our time at the Dead Sea. You will notice that I combined the slide show technique and the video technique. One problem you will also notice was that I was not able to turn off the video sound when I added narration. Honestly, I don’t have the time it would take to create the clean transitions and better sound. I also don’t have the skills. Our professional editors can make cuts and add sound in seconds, which comes from a lot of practice.

There is one final episode that I will have to do when I get back. I think I might enlist some help in the final one… if I can pull someone away from something else for a couple hours.

Here’s some info about the Dead Sea from Wikipedia that will give you a little perspective on our visit and the video:

The Dead Sea (Hebrew: ים המלח‎; Arabic: البحر الميت‎) is the Earth’s lowest point not covered by ice, at 418 m (1371 feet) below sea level and falling[2], and the deepest hypersaline lake in the world, at 330 m (1083 feet) deep. It is the saltiest body of water on Earth, with a salinity of about 30 percent.[3] This is about 8.6 times greater than average ocean salinity. It measures 67 km (42 miles) long, 18 km (11 miles) wide at its widest point, and is located on the border between the West Bank, Israel, and Jordan, and lies in the Jordan Rift Valley. The main tributary is the Jordan River.

The Dead Sea has attracted interest and visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. It was a place of refuge for King David, one of the world’s first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of products as diverse as balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers.

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