The flight to Tel Aviv is always fun. We go up the Arava all the way to the Dead Sea. Then, near the northern end of it, we begin our descent to Tel Aviv as we bank steeply left and descend over the northern part of Jerusalem (and probably Ramallah, as well), passing north of the Ben Gurion airport (Israel's main one) and continuing out over the Mediterranean Sea to circle around and make the final descent and approach to Sde Dov, the small airport in northern Tel Aviv.
After landing, I walked to the Souraski/Ichilov Medical Center, taking a number of pictures along the way, mostly flowers. I also took today's pic of the day, a silhouette against the morning sun formed by some tall apartment buildings very near the airport:
I arrived more than an hour before my appointment time and checked in, but, of course, they had to take the people with appointments before mine in first anyway, and I ended up not getting in to see the doctor until nearly an hour and a half after my appointment time. It was a little boring waiting, but I managed to entertain myself fairly well.
The doctor did exactly what I expected and will set up new appointments with the surgeon and the anesthesiologist who, in turn, will schedule my surgery, which will probably take place somewhere around a month from now.
After the appointment, I walked over to the Tel Aviv Gay Center in Gan Me'ir (not far from Diezengoff Center), where I met my friend, David, who was attending a regular meeting of a gay seniors group he's a member of. I got to meet some of his friends from the group (who, of course, could not believe that I was 64, LOL).
Then David took me out to eat at a restaurant near his place, and of course we chatted a lot. All in all, I enjoyed a very pleasant day with him.
In the evening, I walked from his place back up to the airport and caught my flight home. I decided to take a bus home rather than walking, mostly for time's sake. I arrived home just after 9:00.
I walked a total of 15.1 kilometers today.
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