A lot of places saw an unusually warm Christmas this year - my parents said it was nearly 70 degrees in Massachusetts! - and much of Norway was no exception. Trondheim was snowy when I left and Bø was snowy when I arrived, but by Christmastime all that snow had been rained away. ...
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I Care More About Paris
To everyone on the Internet telling me to keep Paris in my heart: you don't need to tell me, it's already there. To everyone on the Internet reminding me that while the attacks in Paris are tragic, just as tragic things have recently happened in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and ...
The Lows Behind My Top 5 Travel Experiences
5 Ways Travel Will Change Your Life Why Every Woman Should Travel Solo At Least Once Buy A Plane Ticket and Begin Your Life I could go on with this list, but I think you get the point. They're the articles that pop up in our newsfeed and have us sighing with wanderlust, the ...
Is Travel Your Drug?
My best friend from high school has finished the first draft of her second book and as I was reading it last night I had to laugh. Not because it was funny, but because two of her characters were doing drugs. Drugs aren't funny, kids! But Ann writing about teens doing drugs sort ...
That Bitter Expat Syndrome
Perhaps my last post was not exactly overflowing with positivity. Dealing with Internet companies is never fun, and trying to sort it out had me frustrated for weeks. Except by the end it wasn't just about the Internet anymore. It was Norway's fault we didn't have Internet, if ...