800 year old churches, grass-roof cabins, rushing waterfalls, extreme descents, car trouble, boat cruises, a drone accident, and 10,000 memories shared with my mom. Definitely a trip I will never forget,

How do you get trolls to the top of a mountain? You build a giant ladder. Trollstigen - "The troll ladder" Have you seen this road before? I bet a lot of you have. It's surely one of the more

Renting cabins on Airbnb can be a hit or miss. It usually works out well, but you never know until you get there. The view promised at this cabin in the small town of Valldal did not disappoint. The journey

Getting to Geiranger proved to be more difficult than we had envisioned. But it did not disappoint once we got there. The road down to the valley that the town Geiranger sits in has two large descents,

Sometimes the coolest moments come at unexpected times. After leaving the cabin at Vågåmo, we had a clear destiantion in mind - Geiranger. Geiranger is a famous fjord destination and supposed to be very

If you spend some time driving around Norway, you will undoubtedly find plenty of cabins that are quite "alive". Some might even have trees protruding from the roof. On the first night of our

I'm still working on my countdown of my top 10 travel videos, and in the last one, I was road tripping with my mom through Ireland. That got me thinking about the road trip we went on shortly before, from

Today is Mother's Day in the States, and I'd like to take the opportunity to revisit a very special adventure I got to embark on a couple years back with the person I am lucky enough to call my mother.

This was NOT a part of the plan: A couple years back, I was hanging out at my friend Sigmund's dad's farm in rural Norway for the weekend. His dad was busy shining up a 1995 Toyota Hiace out in the driveway.

The Portuguese coast is full of rocky cliffs and fabulous sand beaches. Here we had the chance to visit Baleal and Peniche north of Lisbon, before heading to the south coast where we found the charming

I love visiting small towns with unusual names. I see them on the map and it always makes me wonder what they are like. When my firends Ryan and Siril suggested a weekend getaway across the border to a

Have I mentioned that I enjoy having digital nomad friends? Gives me the perfect reason to make a few trips a year to places I've been waiting to go to, or otherwise might not have been on my radar, and

These days we are very thankful to have some semblance of normality here in Norway. Regulations are beginning to loosen, people are being allowed to move about more and more, and I even heard today that

Saturday night at the cabin, time for one more round. Another dark one In my previous post, I tried out a bock from Norway's oldest brewery, Aass. Tonight it was time for something of the newer sort –

It’s Saturday. It’s a long weekend. You know what that means: Beer! I hope you are well! I haven’t actually done one of these in forever, but today I’m on a cabin trip and in the mood. It’s the first such

Rather than head straight home from my feast of a trip in Austria, I managed to parlay it into a multistop visit. Next destination: Hungary I was particularly excited about this excursion because it was

Following my fun and memorable weekend in Alicante, I had to make a quick turnaround and head back south. However, this time I wasn't headed for a sunny escape from the Norwegian winter, but a winter

Have any of you travelers ever taken a chance on going to visit a place you've never been to meet someone you didn't really know that well? Well, that's exactly what I did on my first visit here: Alicante,

It didn’t take long to make it back to Geilo! Having just been here at New Year’s, it wasn’t exactly my plan to return to the area so soon, but when the company makes plans for a ski weekend, then you

I have a suggestion: If you find yourself in Norway and see a sign with the name of a waterfall (foss) on it, GO SEE IT! There's a good reason for this. It's because there is so much water flowing all