This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Well, we are off again! After a couple of big recent trips to immerse ourselves in the power and beauty of raw nature, this trip has no real design per se. Rather than seeing how nature shaped cultures in order to survive, this trip…
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The past 6+ months have been very stressful for our family when our son was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive blood cancer. Luckily, he was accepted into a clinical trial and, after an immunotherapy course of treatment, he was declared in remission! As a consequence, we decided this would be the perfect time for…
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Even when you live in the tropical paradise of Puerto Vallarta, you still want to get away to enjoy other parts of Mexico. Over a three-day weekend, we decided to take a roadtrip along the Costalegre (which translates to “Happy Coast”), a 280 kilometer stretch of very remote land and coastline between Puerto Vallarta and…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Sounds kind of ominous, doesn’t it? Well, this was our last day of touring and we only really had one activity for the day — descending 400 feet to the bottom of a volcanic crater and exploring. Seems easy enough, right? Let’s do it. The…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Today, we spent our time in the Husafell area, which is about a 1.5 hour drive from Reykjavik. The main reason to go was the Langjökull Ice Cave Experience. Basically, this means climbing the Langjökull glacier in a 20-ton truck that used to be a…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 The next day brought rain, a blessedly rare occurrence on our trip around Iceland. Having a boat trip to Drangey for birdwatching cancelled because most of the sea birds had already migrated, we needed something to do. Luckily, we had seen a brochure along the…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 This day started off as planned with a visit to Godafoss — the waterfall of the gods. This was actually a little piece of the Diamond Circle that we didn’t complete the day before. Godafoss is really a beautiful set of waterfalls, all part of…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Today we did the Diamond Circle, a 150 mile circuit in the northeastern part of Iceland, filled with diverse landscapes and experiences. Our first stop for the day was at Dettifoss, recognized as the most powerful in Europe (over 6000 cubic feet per second). Detifoss…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Today was another traveling day as we started to make our way north. But the day was also marked by extreme changes in terrain and landscape. Our first stop today was Studlagil (Basalt Column Gorge), a section of the Jökulsá á Dal River. This gorge…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 With a smaller group and a smaller van, our group now settled into a bit of a more leisurely pace. For one thing, we were starting to move away from the more heavily touristed south of the island to the more fishing-oriented towns of the…
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