I promised to post this as a follow up to my Paris trip recap this week, and depending on which day you consider the first of the week, I may have actually made that deadline.
One of the problems with visiting popular destinations around the world is the crowds and the queues. Anyone who has stood [...]
This week I finished uploading my photos from our Valentine’s Day weekend in Paris. The full album can be found here.
We booked our trip to Paris back in December when RyanAir was having one of their crazy airfare sales, and the roundtrip tickets cost only 200 NOK (around $35) per person. Since we could fly [...]
This weekend, we went with Tara and Tor to Tor’s family cabin in the mountains. Even though we’ve been in Norway for three years, we’ve never experienced a traditional cabin trip. Even more embarrassingly, we’ve never been cross country skiing.
We drove up on Friday night, and our first cross-country experience was quite an adventure – [...]
I really want to keep up my two posts per week resolution, but I don’t have any time this week. We got back from Paris on Monday (I was hoping to post about that), and today we have to leave early to go on a very Norwegian weekend cabin trip, so I’m just trying to [...]
I’m trying to spread out my myriad of travel posts to once a week, but I’ve been sitting on this article for a while now, so I feel like I really should post it.
10 Ways Your Cat Will Punish You for Traveling
It’s clever, well-written, humorous, and even a little helpful, and anyone cat owner who [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’re looking puzzled and saying, “Really? Mozambique?!?” This is a country that was definitely not on my travel radar a month ago! When I think of southern Africa, I think of South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Basically safaris and Victoria Falls. So when our friends invited us to [...]
I know that a few people have been eagerly waiting to see some photos of our trip to India, so I’ve been working overtime this past week to try to get them sorted and uploaded in a timely manner. We don’t want any repeats of last summer’s Alaska trip! [Speaking of... I have finally started [...]
There is a very bizarre mix of things that interest me, and I’m always excited when two of those interests overlap (for example, last month’s mash-up of Halloween and Geek culture).
Today’s strange bedfellows are travel and origami. More specifically, foreign currency and origami. Along with the rest of my family, I’ve been doing origami since [...]
A year ago, when we received the “Destinations Rated” issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine, I was surprised to see that the top-ranked destination in the US was Columbus, Indiana. This year, the highset-scoring destination is once again close to “home,” as the honor went to the Norwegian fjords.
The scores are calculated based on six [...]
Today was our first full day back in Oslo. It’s a relief to be home after our crazy trip, and the cats are certainly glad to see us. Even Maia, the reclusive cat, seemed a little more social than usual.
Being away for two weeks isn’t usually so exhausting, but this time it was essentially three [...]