Abstract
For the last twenty-five years, I have been intrigued with archaeology and devoured any article on archaeology that appeared in the newspaper or magazines. In 1997, as I was reading the Jan/Feb issue of Biblical Archaeological Review, I decided I would like to celebrate my sixty-fifth birthday at a dig site in Israel. I wrote letters to a few archaeological excavations telling why I would be of value to their work team: twenty years of delicate camera repair work; fifty years in taking photographs, and previous work on a survey team at a construction site.