Category: travel
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Iceland: Day 3
Our third day in Reykjavik was another wander-around-the-city day. As I mentioned, the whole city is really manageable in a day. We anticipated having more to explore within the city center. That is probably the only drawback of my preferred travel style. No tour, just show up and do your own thing. It usually yields…
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Iceland: Day 2
We caught a later brunch on our second day in Iceland at a place I really wanted to try. Grai Kotturin was another place I’d discovered in my research for this article over at Dish Trip. Its name translates to something like Grey Cat or Grey Kitten, which sold me even further. Who doesn’t want to…
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Iceland: Day 1
We woke up on our first day in Iceland prepared to wander around Reykjavik and get the lay of the land. Our apartment was in a really convenient location, right in the center of the 101 district, so it was in the heart of everything, including tourist shops, which usually aren’t my thing. Reykjavik is…
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Iceland: The Intro
I’m not so into the cold. Really. It took a little convincing for me to go on vacation to somewhere not warm. But I had seen enough Sigur Ros videos to know that the beauty would make up for having to pack a coat. We rolled into Reykjavik in the middle of the night. Neither…
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Debt v. Travel
Chadoh and I have been blessed with parents who lovingly believed that we needed to learn responsibility by paying for our own college. It was hard to be at a super-expensive school with lots of kids from the suburbs (“Where are you from?” “Oh, just outside of Philly.” Every. Single. Time.) whose parents felt responsible…
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SF IV: Golden Gate, Land and Sea
What’s a San Francisco series without obligatory Golden Gate photos? I certainly wouldn’t know. We had lots of opportunities to take pictures of the Golden Gate. Chadoh found a nifty little sunset cruise for us to take on our second night there. It was an anniversary trip, after all. The Adventure Cat took us out…