Before heading back to Iceland, I spent a few months collecting images of places I saw other people visiting to add to our list of spots to stop on our road trip. One thing I kept seeing were orange lighthouses. In fact, they are all over the island and every… Read more
As I’ve mentioned in many posts like this before, Iceland is a place so unique and different than any you’ve ever seen. It’s an island that spans numerous landscapes, from almost plains type spaces to mountains covered in snow, from breathtaking fjord views to lava fields covered in inches of… Read more
About a month before we were schedule to head to Iceland, I had an idea. Nick has been wanting to do a helicopter tour forever and I’ve always been a little scared of the idea to be honest, but with his birthday coming up in June, I figured I’d bite… Read more
It’s been almost three years since we last visited Iceland on a whim over Thanksgiving break in November of 2012. And after that first visit, we knew we wanted to return sooner rather than later, falling deep in love with the country and the people and walking away from that… Read more
I get a lot of questions about how we book travel, the tips and tricks we employ to get good deals and make all the necessary arrangements. All this week I’ll be revealing my process for booking travel from start to finish, focusing on a different part of the process each… Read more
I get a lot of questions about how we book travel, the tips and tricks we employ to get good deals and make all the necessary arrangements. All this week I’ll be revealing my process for booking travel from start to finish, focusing on a different part of the process each… Read more
I get a lot of questions about how we book travel, the tips and tricks we employ to get good deals and make all the necessary arrangements. All this week I’ll be revealing my process for booking travel from start to finish, focusing on a different part of the process each… Read more
I get a lot of questions about how we book travel, the tips and tricks we employ to get good deals and make all the necessary arrangements. All this week I’ll be revealing my process for booking travel from start to finish, focusing on a different part of the process each… Read more
I get a lot of questions about how we book travel, the tips and tricks we employ to get good deals and make all the necessary arrangements. All this week I’ll be revealing my process for booking travel from start to finish, focusing on a different part of the process… Read more
We’re getting all ready to head to Iceland tomorrow and as I was preparing everything for our trip, I got to thinking about everything that is involved in the lead up to traveling abroad. It can often seem a daunting adventure, but for anyone thinking of heading abroad for… Read more
Last weekend, Nick and I headed over to Central Oregon for a weekend escape. I hadn’t been to Bend or the area around it for probably 10 years and it’s an area of Oregon that has grown exponentially in that last decade. Originally we had the weekend escape planned for… Read more
I’ve mentioned it numerous times on the blog before, but I really like a nice hotel when traveling. That’s not to say I like the price tags for luxury hotels or that I stay in them for every trip, and generally I prefer small boutique hotels, but sometimes a night… Read more
I feel like a lot of travel bloggers are talking about souvenirs lately; those little momentos that you pick up while traveling and bring home to remind you of that amazing trip. Well I feel I should add my two cents, and offer suggestions based on some of my favorite… Read more
After my introduction to our time in Lisbon the other day, I got to thinking more about our time in Portugal. We really did end up leaving with a totally different view of the seaside city than when we had arrived and all in all, really enjoyed Lisbon. The colorful… Read more
I’ve got to be honest, Lisbon kind of shocked me. It wasn’t at all what I was expecting and at first as we wandered the city (albeit pretty tired from our early morning flight from Spain), but we were kind of taken aback. At first glance Lisbon seems to… Read more