About Yannai
Hi Everyone, I’m Yannai- a walker come home. Welcome to my blog, Unpacked: A Walker Returns Home.
I live in Jerusalem with my wife, Chana, and our chubby friend and roommate, Seamus the cat. I currently do PR/Marketing work at Derech Hateva, a Jewish outdoor education project of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI).
I’m used to being a passionate guy- I’ve gone through pretty intense passions in my life- Hockey, Bluegrass Music, Irish tinwhistle, Sustainable Living, everything connected to Canada, later Jamaica, then back to Canada and on to Israel, and much, much more. On mine and Chana’s recently completed five month trek through Ireland, Scotland and Western US’s PCT , I rediscovered another passion of mine: living outside, and living at a walking pace (for more, click here).
Here’s us at our happiest:
Chana and I had done lots of hiking before- endless multi-day Tiyulim, trips in the hills of our homeland, Israel, and a few two-week treks along the Appalachian Trail of the US’s east coast. But this walk was infinitely greater than anything we’d done before. We pray to one day do it again!
But now, we’re home. Amidst the joy of reuniting with family, friends, a permanent address and indoor-plumbing, city-life bomabards me daily with a host of new adventures: challenges, delights and eccentricities that have piqued my attention in my current take2 at civilization.
Unpacked: A Walker Returns Home is my humble attempt at unpacking: preserving the magic of the backcountry, synthesizing it with coming home and using it to see home through renewed eyes.
On Unpacked, I share with you both practical information and impractical thoughts. For example: Chana and I wish to create a nicely bound book of photos and memoirs. On Unpacked, I will tell you how we are doing it. We are also terrified of confining our travels to a nicely bound book of photos and memoirs. On Unpacked I will keep you posted on our struggle. We will discuss offsetting our trip’s carbon emissions, Jerusalem’s knack for providing the wildest everyday occurrences, dreams of future excursions and much, much more.
I am very excited to unpack with you, and I invite you to share, explore and commit with me. May we finally do something with that half-unpacked suitcase that sits in the middle of our room. May we recycle the unrelenting wish, “I wish I was back.”
Cheers to you and me: We are turning the act of unpacking into another exciting step of the journey.
Happy Trails!
Yannai
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