After spending a wonderful 4 days exploring Reykjavík we took our rental car and headed south. I didn’t know what to expect, but our South Iceland road trip turned out to be our favorite part of the trip! As mentioned before we had rented a 4 wheel drive vehicle, which proved useful in the snowy March weather. The roads around Reykjavík are very well maintained, however heading south there is a pass which, despite the snowplows, was rather Read More …
September is setting up to be one of the best months of our life, as we will be spending 3 weeks in Europe! We have been to Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, road tripped throughout the United States, went to Africa (me) and the Middle East (Jake) but somehow we haven’t been to Europe until this year. We did spend a week in Iceland, which is Europe. But since Iceland is more secluded and up in Read More …
We spent a week in Iceland in the beginning of March. We had many hopes for this trip. We wanted to see Ice Caves, swim between 2 continents, swim in the Blue Lagoon, pet Icelandic horses, explore Reykjavík and see some stellar waterfalls and geysers. The thing we desired most though, was to see the Northern Lights in Iceland. We had a few mishaps on the trip. I had a terrible cold the entire time we were in Iceland, which prevented Read More …
The capital of Iceland is not a large city, but we found that even 4 days in Reykjavík was not quite enough to explore all it has to offer. Reykjavík is the northern most capital city in the world, and with a population of 120,000 it is actually pretty large. We used our time in Reykjavík to explore the city, as well has places short distances from it. Stay Like other Scandinavian countries, Iceland is Read More …
Last May my sister and I travelled from Washington state to Georgia to watch our brother graduate from basic training. After his graduation from Fort Benning he immediately had to head home back to Washington. Fortunately another sister lives in central Georgia so we had a wonderful few days hanging out with our sister, niece and nephew. The end of our Georgia trip concluded with a girls trip to Savannah for a night. We only had Read More …