Tag: travel
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Hawaii
I just returned from a week in Hawaii. I’d never been before, but now I definitely want to go back! Emma, her parents, her brother, his girlfriend, and I traveled to Honolulu via Salt Lake City. We stayed in a house on the ocean on the North Shore of Oahu. The view was amazing all…
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Iceland! – Photos
I’ve gone through the ~1,000 photos I took, and selected out about 325 that are worth sharing. I haven’t done any cleanup or post-processing on them, so don’t judge me to harshly. You can see them all here: Iceland! Here are a few highlights: [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
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Iceland! – Our Trip Part 3
O! For dinner on Thursday night we ended up, after a failed attempt at a very popular local seafood restaurant, at a hotel restaurant called O. It was good. As always, the food wasn’t quite what we expected, but was very enjoyable. Friday morning was an early one, as we had an 8:20 AM pickup…
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Iceland! – Our Trip Part 2
In my previous post, Our Trip So Far, I caught you all up to Tuesday afternoon, when I was writing blog posts from a local coffee shop. On Tuesday evening we had an early dinner at a Mexican restaurant which was delicious. Like many of the meals I’ve had in Iceland, the food wasn’t exactly…
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Iceland! – Our Hotel
We are staying at the Leifur Eiriksson hotel in Reykjavik. The Good: It’s cheap. I think we’re paying about $40/night. The location is great. Quick walk to the main shopping/restaurant drag, great view of the big church. The front desk has been super helpful at setting up tours, taxis, reservations. Free breakfast spread that’s better…
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Iceland! – Impressions
Iceland is an amazing country. The physical landscape is like no where else I’ve ever been. The old lava flow landscape looks like an other-worldly alien landscape. The mountains and glaciers appear out of the fog as these impossibly imposing edifices. On some of the shuttle trips that took us out into the desolate lava…