Tag: 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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I Moved Again (November 2024 Life Update)
Hello hello, dear blog readers. It’s a crisp, cool, sunny day in Chattanooga, TN, and I’m here to tell you that yes, I moved again. Probably not for the last time, but hopefully for the almost-last time. In the last few years, I’ve grown weary of explaining my life to people, which is why I’ve…
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June 2024 Life Update
Do you remember when I used to blog about every random little thing that flew into my head? I miss those days sometimes. Not often, though. Anyway. Here’s a life update if you’re interested. Where I live I came to Oregon in mid-April to And then never bothered going back to Houston. After all, I…
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The Trip to Belize
For my second post in the 2024 April Blogging Challenge, I intended to write about my trip to Belize in January. Then, Mom posted about Belize for her first April Blogging Challenge post. If you are the type of person who can’t stand to read the same story twice, from two different perspectives, I am…
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Adventure Boots
“Do you think I should take my rubber boots on this trip?” I asked my brother Ben, as we planned our camping adventures. “You might as well, if there’s room in the car,” said Ben. “They might come in handy.” Sure enough, the first trail we hiked was soggy and muddy. I ran back to…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 