Category: Travel
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The Last Days of the Iceland Adventure: Reykjavik, Blue Lagoon, and a Local Church
Sunday. We’d been in Iceland for over a week now, and here we were, back in the capital city of Reykjavík. What should we do? What should we see? What museums were worth checking out? Personally, I had a hankering to go to church. Here’s an interesting fact I realized: my trip to Iceland was…
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The Golden Circle
That first morning in Selfoss, I could immediately tell it was going to be a lovely day. The Sells got up shortly after I did and went out to breakfast and then to a yogurt museum, while I did my usual procedure of eating a granola bar and drinking tea while working on my laptop…
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East to the Land of the Glaciers
It was late when we pulled into our campsite at Vatnajökull National Park, and I felt a distinct chill in the air as I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and give my phone as much charge as I could. It was too dark to tell that the chill came from wind blowing…
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South We Go: Wandering Vik, Iceland
When you plan a trip in three days, and when you take along a baby and a toddler, there’s only so much you can plan. All we managed to do that first Sunday was get the camper van and drive 30 minutes to our campground in Reykjavik, and the only scenery we saw was fields…
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The Trials and Triumphs of the First Day of Iceland
Well, here I am in Iceland. It’s Monday morning, and I’m sitting in a hostel drinking tea. It’s been an adventure so far, though perhaps not kind you’d envy. Our flight from Atlanta landed in JFK Saturday night, massively delayed, and we stood up, backpacks on, ready to dash to the next gate and beg…
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A Last-Minute Trip to Iceland
Life is a funny thing sometimes. If you read my book, The Highway and Me and My Earl Grey Tea, perhaps you remember a time when I drove to Nashville, met up with my cousin Jason, and we stayed in a mansion with the Sells, a couple I didn’t know. When I asked Jason how…
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The Eclipse 2024
It’s hard to describe just how much the 2024 eclipse mattered to me. Seeing the 2017 eclipse was one of the top highlights of my life. Maybe even the best moment of my entire life. Not just the uncanny, indescribable, mind-bending beauty of the eclipse itself but the whole day—from camping with my cousins to…
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Surprising Our Mom for Her 60th Birthday
Last week my five siblings, one sister-in-law, and I flew to Oregon to surprise our mom for her 60th birthday. But before I get to that story, one quick announcement: On Friday, March 25 I’m doing a book signing, along with my mom and Shari Zook, at Piccadilly Coffee and Tea House in Lancaster PA,…
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Kenya Part 6: Mombasa, and the Journey Home
Hey friends! Are you ready for the final installment of my Kenya trip? Since returning I started a new job, celebrated the holidays, and came down with a sore-throat-and-headache virus that I’ve had for a week now and can’t seem to kick (I’m currently awaiting COVID test results). Needless to say, blogging got shoved to…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 