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Ice Ice Baby
February 16th Another long travel day ahead of us! Starting the morning in Punta Arenas, we picked up our Europcar rental (another Subaru Crosstrek lol) and started our 7-hour journey northward to the Argentinian town of El Calafate, the gateway to Los Glaciares National Park. As part of the trip, we worked with Europcar to…
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It rains in the desert?
February 13th Another early travel morning in the books! We departed Santiago around 7AM, landing in Calama around 10AM. After seamlessly picking up our car rental through Chilean, we were on our way to San Pedro de Atacama, the homebase for our desert exploration. While we had planned a jam-packed three days in the desert,…
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Sun Diego
Aaahh San Diego – we decided to visit here for Jared’s 30th birthday. It had been almost ten years since I’d previously visited, and Jared’s always wanted to go, so seemed like a fun weekend trip! Our plans? Lots of breweries, visiting La Jolla and doing a sea kayak tour, walking around the Gaslamp District…
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Bergen and Geiranger fjord
Day 1 After leaving Denver at 4PM, and having a 4-hour layover in Iceland, we landed in Bergen around 2PM. Here are some fun facts about the city: Running on very little sleep (classic), we hopped on the Light Rail from the airport and made it to city center around 3PM. We quickly checked into…
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Hardanger fjord / Trolltunga / Lom
Day 5 The first day was spent driving from Bergen to Odda, about a three hour drive soaking in the scenery. Our plan was to hike Trolltunga the next day, so today was meant to be fairly low key. Our first stop about an hour into the drive was Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, which had a unique…
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Lofoten Islands – Rohrbaugh in a Rorbu
Day 2 When planning this trip, we weren’t sure if we’d have time to squeeze in the Lofoten Islands because they are far in the Arctic Circle, requiring you to fly from either Bergen or Oslo. I’m so glad we chose to spend three days here – Jared and I have been fortunate enough to…
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Paris – je suis macaron
Day 1 Our trip was so jam-packed that we ended up only having two and a half days in Paris, but heck if we saw a lot! The first day we got there around 6PM after we left Normandy, and dropped our car off at the airport. For three nights, we stayed at the Hotel…
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Western french coast
Mont Saint-Michel I’ve mentioned this in a previous post, but this trip was definitely one of the most go-go-go ones we’ve done in a while. There were places we wanted to add to the itinerary that we simply could not when we were planning, like Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal island in Normandy, France and probably…
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Tulipmania
Today is all about tulips and Dutch heritage! What is tulipmania? Tulip mania was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative…
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The sourdough of beer
We made it to Belgium! After planning this trip in 2020, only to have it delayed by Covid, we finally got our European trip after four years! Belgium is the kickoff of our nine day European vacation with Brussels, Amsterdam, Normandy, and Paris. We love to pack a lot in a short amount of time,…
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