Picture two aging men, both fairly fearful of heights, nervously making their way along the narrow stone ramparts of Jerusalem’s old fortress walls. This picture is of the easy part. It didn’t last.
The inner wall (left) was soon replaced by a short iron railing between us and a 100-foot drop to the streets below. That was when progress got a lot slower and, after beginning at the Jaffa Gate on the west side, we gratefully descended at the Dung Gate on the south. Whose idea was it? Who else? Mine.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 