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Mac Lacy
Mac Lacy is president and publisher of The Group Travel Leader Inc. Mac has been traveling and writing professionally ever since a two-month backpacking trip through Europe upon his graduation with a journalism degree from the University of Evansville in 1978.
What can be said about this city that has not been said? It is a cauldron of culture and religion. It holds the secrets of eternity and it draws pilgrims from the world’s three monotheistic faiths like other cities draw fans to a game. We stood on the Mount of Olives and looked across thousands […]
Driving down from the Sea of Galilee into Jericho was a study in topography. The Sea of Galilee is refreshing in itself, bright blue and dotted with boats. As you drive toward Jericho and the Dea Sea, you descend steadily toward some of the world’s lowest elevations and windswept deserts that are so reflective of […]
Raed Abu Sahlieh is as charistmatic a figure as we met in all of Palestine. He is the priest of St. George’s Church in Taybeh and he is an outspoken proponent of peace and justice in this beleagured region of the world. He spent almost an hour with us and one gets the feeling he […]
To anyone who comes here, there may be a moment of personal epiphany or revelation, I would guess. Many are most moved by the historic sites–the place of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem, or his passion in Jerusalem. The Garden at Gethsemane, or maybe Nazareth, where he grew up and was eventually shunned. For me, it […]
Wisam Salsaa was our guide for most of this trip. He is Palestinian and works out of Bethlehem. He is a Christian. On our way into Jerusalem from Jericho, he brought up an age-old teaching of Jesus, but added this caveat: ‘When Jesus said ‘if someone strikes you on the right cheek, offer them the […]
Dr. Maria C. Khoury and her husband have managed to build the only microbrewery in the Middle East. The Taybeh Brewery was established in 1994 when she, of Greek descent, and he, a Palestinian native, returned to his homeland to live. After managing to get necessary permits, they began brewing Taybeh Beer. It is now […]
Elias Salameh Afteem is carrying on a very proud family tradition at Restaurant Afteem in Bethlehem. He greets you in a bustling lunchtime crowd just off the market in this iconic pilgrimage city in Palestine. I noticed him immediately when our group came in the door. For all I knew he was just a server, […]
Innovative television "network" promoted the Southern states at Travel South USA Showcase in Birmingham, Ala.
On Sunday, April 11, The Group Travel Leader Inc hosted two annual events, the Travel South Classic Bowling Tournament and the Travel South Classic Golf Tournament in sunny Birmingham, Alabama. More than 70 delegates from all 12 states in the Travel South region joined Kelly Tyner and Stacey Bowman for the bowling event at Lightning […]
Visit Milwaukee threw a party for more than 400 guests at the 2010 BankTravel Conference on February 7 and it didn’t disappoint. The evening began at the Harley Davidson Museum, an amazing collection of hundreds of vintage motorcycles. There were riders in the crowd and plenty of non-riders as well, but it didn’t seem to […]
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